Automatic top-down processing explains common left occipito-temporal responses to visual words and objects

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 103-114

  Kherif, Ferath ^a   Josse, Goulven ^a   Price, Cathy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Language; Priming; Repetition suppression; Visual system; Word object recognition

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 78651264216     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq063     Document Type: Article

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