Cortical representation of animate and inanimate objects in complex natural scenes

Journal of Physiology Paris

Volumn 106, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 239-249

  Naselaris, Thomas ^a,b   Stansbury, Dustin E ^a   Gallant, Jack L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Decoding; Encoding models; fMRI; Natural scenes; Object representation; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; NEUROANATOMY; OBJECT RELATION; PREDICTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RETINA; VALIDATION STUDY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84868303937     PISSN: 09284257     EISSN: 17697115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphysparis.2012.02.001     Document Type: Article

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