Imagery for shapes activates position-invariant representations in human visual cortex

NeuroImage

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1540-1545

  Stokes, Mark ^a   Saraiva, Ana ^a   Rohenkohl, Gustavo ^a   Nobre, Anna C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

FMRI; MVPA; Position invariance; Top down control; Visual imagery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955482565     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.02.071     Document Type: Article

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