Parametric Coding of the Size and Clutter of Natural Scenes in the Human Brain

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1792-1805

  Park, Soojin ^a   Konkle, Talia ^b   Oliva, Aude ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; multivoxel pattern analysis; scene and space perception; the parahippocampal place area; the retrosplenial cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN ANALYSIS; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MULTIVOXEL PATTERN ANALYSIS; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL PLACE AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TEMPORAL LOBE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84936796833     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht418     Document Type: Article

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