Data-driven functional clustering reveals dominance of face, place, and body selectivity in the ventral visual pathway

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 108, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2306-2322

  Vul, Edward ^a   Lashkari, Danial ^b   Hsieh, Po Jang ^c   Golland, Polina ^b   Kanwisher, Nancy ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Functional MRI; Object recognition; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VENTRAL VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84867711660     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00354.2011     Document Type: Article

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