Object representations for multiple visual categories overlap in lateral occipital and medial fusiform cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1806-1819

  Pourtois, Gilles ^a,b,d   Schwartz, Sophie ^a   Spiridon, Mona ^a   Martuzzi, Roberto ^c   Vuilleumier, Patrik ^a,b  

^a Clinic of Neurology   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Category selectivity; Face recognition; Fusiform face area; Fusiform gyrus; Lateral occipital cortex; Object recognition; Repetition priming; Unfamiliar objects; View invariance; Viewpoint sensitivity; Viewpoint transformation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA IMAGE; SUBICULUM; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 67651099075     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn210     Document Type: Article

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