Similar spatial patterns of neural coding of category selectivity in FFA and VWFA under different attention conditions

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 862-868

  Xu, Guifang ^a,b   Jiang, Yi ^a   Ma, Lifei ^a,b   Yang, Zhi ^a   Weng, Xuchu ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Contrast to noise ratio; FMRI; Fusiform face area; Multi voxel pattern analysis (MVPA); Visual word form area

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; CHINESE CHARACTER; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS CONDITION CLASSIFICATION; DATA ANALYSIS; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HIGH ATTENTION CONDITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOW ATTENTION CONDITION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; REGION OF INTEREST; STIMULUS; TEXTURE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL WORD FORM AREA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862824407     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.01.026     Document Type: Article

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