The "parahippocampal place area" responds preferentially to high spatial frequencies in humans and monkeys

PLoS Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Rajimehr, Reza ^a,b   Devaney, Kathryn J ^a   Bilenko, Natalia Y ^a   Young, Jeremy C ^a   Tootell, Roger B H ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL PLACE AREA; RETINA FOVEA; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MACACA MULATTA; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

MACACA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79955517413     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000608     Document Type: Article

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