Quantifying the internal structure of categories using a neural typicality measure

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1720-1737

  Davis, Tyler ^a   Poldrack, Russell A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

categorization; fMRI; representation; similarity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FAT CONTENT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; VISUAL INFORMATION; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CONCEPT FORMATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VASCULARIZATION;

OXYGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OXYGEN; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902521782     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht014     Document Type: Article

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