Whole person-evoked fMRI activity patterns in human fusiform gyrus are accurately modeled by a linear combination of face- and body-evoked activity patterns

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 82-90

  Kaiser, Daniel ^a   Strnad, Lukas ^a   Seidl, Katharina N ^b   Kastner, Sabine ^b   Peelen, Marius V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Category selectivity; Extrastriate body area; Fusiform body area; Fusiform face area; Object perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL POPULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YOUNG ADULT;

CATEGORY SELECTIVITY; EXTRASTRIATE BODY AREA; FUSIFORM BODY AREA; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; OBJECT PERCEPTION;

ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84891546152     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00371.2013     Document Type: Article

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