Dissociating the detection of intentionality from animacy in the right posterior superior temporal sulcus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 41, 2012, Pages 14276-14280

  Gao, Tao ^a   Scholl, Brian J ^a   McCarthy, Gregory ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULATION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867267012     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0562-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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