Categorical, yet graded-single-image activation profiles of human category-selective cortical regions

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 8649-8662

  Mur, Marieke ^a,c   Ruff, Douglas A ^a   Bodurka, Jerzy ^b   De Weerd, Peter ^c   Bandettini, Peter A ^a,b   Kriegeskorte, Nikolaus ^a  

^a Laboratory of Brain and Cognition   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL PLACE AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; AREA UNDER CURVE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; ROC CURVE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84862858651     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2334-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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