Human object-similarity judgments reflect and transcend the primate-IT object representation

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue MAR, 2013, Pages

  Mur, Marieke ^a,b,c   Meys, Mirjam ^a,b   Bodurka, Jerzy ^a,d   Goebel, Rainer ^b   Bandettini, Peter A ^a   Kriegeskorte, Nikolaus ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^d LAUREATE INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

FMRI; Human; Neuronal representation; Object perception; Primate; Representational similarity analysis; Vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878784896     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00128     Document Type: Article

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