Reaction time for object categorization is predicted by representational distance

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 132-142

  Carlson, Thomas A ^a,b   Brendan Ritchie, J ^a,b   Kriegeskorte, Nikolaus ^c   Durvasula, Samir ^b   Ma, Junsheng ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT CATEGORIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

DECISION MAKING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84888329083     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00476     Document Type: Article

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