Cultural differences in the lateral occipital complex while viewing incongruent scenes

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 236-241

  Jenkins, Lucas J ^a   Yang, Yung Jui ^b   Goh, Joshua ^b   Hong, Ying Yi ^b,c   Park, Denise C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Culture; Incongruence; Lateral occipital cortex; Scene perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; VISION;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; UNITED STATES; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954530158     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsp056     Document Type: Article

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