Separate parts of occipito-temporal white matter fibers are associated with recognition of faces and places

NeuroImage

Volumn 86, Issue , 2014, Pages 123-130

  Tavor, Ido ^a   Yablonski, Maya ^a   Mezer, Aviv ^b   Rom, Shirley ^a   Assaf, Yaniv ^a   Yovel, Galit ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Category selectivity; DTI; Face scene visual recognition; Inferior longitudinal fasciculus; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRACTOGRAPHY; VISUAL MEMORY; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CROWDING (VISION); INFERIOR FRONTO OCCIPITAL FASCICULUS; INFERIOR LONGITUDINAL FASCICULUS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CATEGORY-SELECTIVITY; DTI; FACE\SCENE\VISUAL RECOGNITION; INFERIOR LONGITUDINAL FASCICULUS; TRACTOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891632180     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.07.085     Document Type: Article

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