The neural basis for shape preferences

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 2198-2206

  Amir, Ori ^a   Biederman, Irving ^a   Hayworth, Kenneth J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Infant eye movements; Lateral occipital complex; Shape; Visual preferences; Visual search asymmetries

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL SHAPE PREFERENCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ADULT; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053569250     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.08.015     Document Type: Article

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