Right fusiform response patterns reflect visual object identity rather than semantic similarity

NeuroImage

Volumn 83, Issue , 2013, Pages 87-97

  Bruffaerts, Rose ^a,b   Dupont, Patrick ^a   De Grauwe, Sophie ^a,c   Peeters, Ronald ^b   De Deyne, Simon ^a   Storms, Gerrit ^a   Vandenberghe, Rik ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Invariant object identity coding; Multi voxel pattern analysis; Right fusiform gyrus; Semantics; Structural descriptions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM CORTEX; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDENTITY; MALE; NEUROBIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT FUSIFORM GYRUS; SEMANTICS; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL OBJECT IDENTITY; VISUAL STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN MAPPING; CONCEPT FORMATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880951007     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.05.128     Document Type: Article

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