Inter-area correlations in the ventral visual pathway reflect feature integration

Journal of Vision

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1-20

  Freeman, Jeremy ^a   Donner, Tobias H ^b   Heeger, David J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Crowding; Fmri; Inter area correlations; Object recognition; Ventral stream; Visual word form area

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051776303     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/11.4.1     Document Type: Article

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