Low-level image properties of visual objects predict patterns of neural response across category-selective regions of the ventral visual pathway

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 26, 2014, Pages 8837-8844

  Rice, Grace E ^a   Watson, David M ^a   Hartley, Tom ^a   Andrews, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Category; Faces; fMRI; MVPA; Object

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT SELECTIVITY; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; YOUNG ADULT;

CATEGORY; FACES; FMRI; MVPA; OBJECT;

BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903206623     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5265-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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