Beyond shape: How you learn about objects affects how they are represented in visual cortex

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Wong, Alan C N ^a   Palmeri, Thomas J ^b   Rogers, Baxter P ^b   Gore, John C ^b   Gauthier, Isabel ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TRAINING; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL MEMORY; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949524848     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008405     Document Type: Article

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