Feature diagnosticity affects representations of novel and familiar objects

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2735-2749

  Hsu, Nina S ^a,b   Schlichting, Margaret L ^a,c   Thompson Schill, Sharon L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; FEATURE DIAGNOSTICITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NOVEL OBJECT RECOGNITION TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING; ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; BLOOD; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR VISION; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

OXYGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84949116066     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00661     Document Type: Article

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