Distributed subordinate specificity for bodies, faces, and buildings in human ventral visual cortex

NeuroImage

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 3414-3425

  Op de Beeck, Hans P ^a   Brants, Marijke ^a   Baeck, Annelies ^a   Wagemans, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BUILDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIES; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VOLUNTEER;

BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 73749083587     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.11.022     Document Type: Article

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