Human medial temporal lobe neurons respond preferentially to personally relevant images

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 50, 2009, Pages 21329-21334

  Viskontas, Indre V ^a   Quiroga, Rodrigo Quian ^b   Fried, Itzhak ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Familiarity; Hippocampus; Memory; Single unit recordings

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FACE; FAMILY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSCAPE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MEMORY; NEURONS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 75849122856     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0902319106     Document Type: Article

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