Real-world scene representations in high-level visual cortex: It's the spaces more than the places

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 7322-7333

  Kravitz, Dwight J ^a   Peng, Cynthia S ^a   Baker, Chris I ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL PLACE AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79956306362     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4588-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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