Differing causal roles for lateral occipital cortex and occipital face area in invariant shape recognition

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 165-171

  Silvanto, J ^a,b,c   Schwarzkopf, D S ^a,b   Gilaie Dotan, S ^a,b   Rees, G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

extrastriate visual cortex; human; modularity; rotation invariance; state dependent transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OCCIPITAL FACE AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; ROTATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954407773     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07278.x     Document Type: Article

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