Does the human dorsal stream really process a category for tools?

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3949-3953

  Sakuraba, Satoshi ^a   Sakai, Shinya ^a   Yamanaka, Masanori ^a   Yokosawa, Koichi ^a   Hirayama, Kazumi ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YAMAGATA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; DRAWING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOOL USE; VEGETABLE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858015895     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3973-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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