Good Exemplars of Natural Scene Categories Elicit Clearer Patterns than Bad Exemplars but Not Greater BOLD Activity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Torralbo, Ana ^a   Walther, Dirk B ^b   Chai, Barry ^c   Caddigan, Eamon ^d   Fei Fei, Li ^c   Beck, Diane M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL TASK; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 84875428657     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058594     Document Type: Article

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