Objects and categories: Feature statistics and object processing in the ventral stream

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1723-1735

  Tyler, Lorraine K ^a   Chiu, Shannon ^a   Zhuang, Jie ^a   Randall, Billi ^a   Devereux, Barry J ^a   Wright, Paul ^a   Clarke, Alex ^a   Taylor, Kirsten I ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c University Center for Medicine of Aging Basel   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSING; STATISTICS; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NAMES; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883147363     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00419     Document Type: Article

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