Selectivity for large nonmanipulable objects in scene-selective visual cortex does not require visual experience

NeuroImage

Volumn 79, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-9

  He, Chenxi ^a   Peelen, Marius V ^b,c   Han, Zaizhu ^a   Lin, Nan ^a   Caramazza, Alfonso ^b,c   Bi, Yanchao ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenitally blind; Object representation; Parahippocampal place area; Scene selective; Ventral temporal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL PLACE AREA; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; RESTING STATE NETWORK; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TRANSVERSE OCCIPITAL SULCUS; VENTRAL TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84877890581     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.04.051     Document Type: Article

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