Separate processing of texture and form in the ventral stream: Evidence from fMRI and visual agnosia

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 433-446

  Cavina Pratesi, C ^a   Kentridge, R W ^a   Heywood, C A ^a   Milner, A D ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

FMRI; Humans; Shape discrimination; Texture discrimination; Visual agnosia

Indexed keywords

AGNOSIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; COLOR BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSOPAGNOSIA; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL AGNOSIA;

ADULT; AGNOSIA; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74249098836     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp111     Document Type: Article

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