Task context impacts visual object processing differentially across the cortex

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Harel, Assaf ^a   Kravitz, Dwight J ^a   Baker, Chris I ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

FMRI; Object recognition; Occipitotemporal cortex; Top down processing; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM; YOUNG ADULT;

FMRI; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OCCIPITOTEMPORAL CORTEX; TOP-DOWN PROCESSING; VISION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84896301173     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1312567111     Document Type: Article

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