Object ensemble processing in human anterior-medial ventral visual cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 7685-7700

  Cant, Jonathan S ^a   Xu, Yaoda ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL PLACE AREA; PERCEPTION; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861631311     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3325-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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