Category learning increases discriminability of relevant object dimensions in visual cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 814-823

  Folstein, Jonathan R ^a   Palmeri, Thomas J ^a   Gauthier, Isabel ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

acquired distinctiveness; category learning; fMRI; object representation; perceptual learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR FUSIFORM GYRUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84875183517     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs067     Document Type: Article

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