Conceptual object representations in human anterior temporal cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 45, 2012, Pages 15728-15736

  Peelen, Marius V ^a   Caramazza, Alfonso ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT MANIPULATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84868528638     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1953-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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