Form and motion make independent contributions to the response to biological motion in occipitotemporal cortex

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 625-634

  Thompson, James C ^a   Baccus, Wendy ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological motion; Extrastriate body area; Form; Human MST; Human MT; Motion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRASTRIATE BODY AREA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATERAL OCCIPITOTEMPORAL CORTEX; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITOTEMPORAL CORTEX; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VENTRAL OCCIPITOTEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOVEMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054120052     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.07.051     Document Type: Article

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