Behaviorally relevant abstract object identity representation in the human parietal cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1607-1619

  Jeong, Su Keun ^a,b   Xu, Yaoda ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Face perception; fMRI MVPA; Parietal cortex; Visual representation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HAIRSTYLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MULTI VOXEL PATTERN ANALYSIS; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT IDENTITY; ODDBALL DETECTION PARADIGM; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL PLACE AREA; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VIEWPOINT; VISUAL SYSTEM; FACIAL RECOGNITION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PUBLIC FIGURE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FACIAL RECOGNITION; FAMOUS PERSONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84957831262     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1016-15.2016     Document Type: Article

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