Multiple scales of organization for object selectivity in ventral visual cortex

NeuroImage

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1372-1381

  Brants, Marijke ^a   Baeck, Annelies ^a   Wagemans, Johan ^a   Op de Beeck, Hans P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

FMRI; Multi voxel pattern analyses; Spatial scales; Spatial smoothing; Ventral visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955475003     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.02.079     Document Type: Article

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