Exemplar selectivity reflects perceptual similarities in the human fusiform cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1879-1893

  Davidesco, Ido ^a   Zion Golumbic, Elana ^b,c   Bickel, Stephan ^d   Harel, Michal ^e   Groppe, David M ^d   Keller, Corey J ^d,f   Schevon, Catherine A ^b   McKhann, Guy M ^b   Goodman, Robert R ^b   Goelman, Gadi ^g   Schroeder, Charles E ^b,c   Mehta, Ashesh D ^d   Malach, Rafael ^e  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences Hebrew University of Jerusalem ^*  (United States)

^c NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^e WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^f ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

ECoG; face perception; high gamma; perceptual similarity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH ELECTRODE; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; TUNING CURVE; VISION; BLOOD; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPLICATION; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; EPILEPSY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EPILEPSY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902459058     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht038     Document Type: Article

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