Functionally Defined White Matter Reveals Segregated Pathways in Human Ventral Temporal Cortex Associated with Category-Specific Processing

Neuron

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 216-227

  Gomez, Jesse ^a   Pestilli, Franco ^b   Witthoft, Nathan ^c   Golarai, Golijeh ^c   Liberman, Alina ^d   Poltoratski, Sonia ^e   Yoon, Jennifer ^f   Grill Spector, Kalanit ^a,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROSOPAGNOSIA; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER; ADOLESCENT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TRACT; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROSOPAGNOSIA; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920731306     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.12.027     Document Type: Article

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