Animate and inanimate objects in human visual cortex: Evidence for task-independent category effects

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 3111-3117

  Wiggett, Alison J ^a   Pritchard, Iwan C ^a   Downing, Paul E ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animacy; Category specificity; fMRI; Task modulation; Ventral stream

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350398684     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.07.008     Document Type: Article

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