A Real-World Size Organization of Object Responses in Occipitotemporal Cortex

Neuron

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1114-1124

  Konkle, Talia ^a   Oliva, Aude ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EYE DOMINANCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; LATERAL OCCIPITAL CORTEX; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VENTRAL TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NEURONS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIZE PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84862653385     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.04.036     Document Type: Article

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