The representation of biological classes in the human brain

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2608-2618

  Connolly, Andrew C ^a   Swaroop Guntupalli, J ^a   Gors, Jason ^a   Hanke, Michael ^a,b   Halchenko, Yaroslav O ^a   Wu, Yu Chien ^a   Abdi, Hervé ^c   Haxby, James V ^a,d  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIRD; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSECT; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863116527     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5547-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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