Linearity of the fMRI response in category-selective regions of human visual cortex

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2628-2640

  Horner, Aidan J ^a   Andrews, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

FFA; PPA; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBICULUM; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ENVIRONMENT; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650457188     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20694     Document Type: Article

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