Facilitating memory for novel characters by reducing neural repetition suppression in the left fusiform cortex

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Xue, Gui ^a,b   Mei, Leilei ^a,c   Chen, Chuansheng ^c   Lu, Zhong Lin ^b   Poldrack, Russell A ^d   Dong, Qi ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; CHINESE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; LEFT MIDFUSIFORM CORTEX; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; RECOGNITION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; LANGUAGE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY;

EID: 78049249428     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013204     Document Type: Article

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