Neurons in the human hippocampus and amygdala respond to both low- and high-level image properties

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2874-2884

  Steinmetz, Peter N ^a   Cabrales, Elaine ^a   Wilson, Michael S ^d   Baker, Christopher P ^b   Thorp, Christopher K ^c   Smith, Kris A ^a   Treiman, David M ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

^c Devicix   (United States)

^d GENERAL DYNAMICS ADVANCED INFORMATION SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Human single neuron; Image illuminance and contrast; Multilevel representation

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LIGHTING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 79959327379     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00977.2010     Document Type: Article

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