Thinking outside the box: Rectilinear shapes selectively activate scene-selective cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 6721-6735

  Nasr, Shahin ^a   Echavarria, Cesar E ^a   Tootell, Roger B H ^a,b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Feature selectivity; fMRI; Parahippocampal place area; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; MALE; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL PLACE AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

CATEGORIZATION; FEATURE SELECTIVITY; FMRI; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL PLACE AREA; WAVELET;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84900390952     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4802-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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