Do object-category selective regions in the ventral visual stream represent perceived distance information?

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 201-213

  Amit, Elinor ^a   Mehoudar, Eyal ^b   Trope, Yaacov ^c   Yovel, Galit ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance; Objects; Perceived distance; Scenes; Ventral visual stream

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL PLACE AREA; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VENTRAL VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84864934023     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2012.06.006     Document Type: Article

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