Basic level category structure emerges gradually across human ventral visual cortex

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1427-1446

  Iordan, Marius CĂTĂLin ^a   Greene, Michelle R ^a   Beck, Diane M ^b   Fei Fei, Li ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; BED; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHAIR; CLASSIFIER; CONFUSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FURNITURE; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR VEHICLE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL PLACE AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; SHIP; VENTRAL VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; ADOLESCENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926667886     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00790     Document Type: Article

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