Quantitative modeling of the neural representation of objects: How semantic feature norms can account for fMRI activation

NeuroImage

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 716-727

  Chang, Kai min Kevin ^a,b   Mitchell, Tom ^a   Just, Marcel Adam ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NERVE CONDUCTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954988954     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.04.271     Document Type: Article

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