The evolution of meaning: Spatio-temporal dynamics of visual object recognition

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1887-1899

  Clarke, Alex ^a   Taylor, Kirsten I ^a,b   Tyler, Lorraine K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN WAVES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NAMES; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79957931196     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21544     Document Type: Article

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