Culture sculpts the perceptual brain

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 178, Issue C, 2009, Pages 95-111

  Goh, Joshua O ^a   Park, Denise C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

contexts; culture; neuroimaging; objects; ventral visual cortex

Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NEUROIMAGING; OBJECT MANIPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; BRAIN; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; CULTURE; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCES; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 71149098723     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(09)17807-X     Document Type: Review

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