Bodies are Represented as Wholes Rather Than Their Sum of Parts in the Occipital-Temporal Cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 530-543

  Brandman, Talia ^a   Yovel, Galit ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Body perception; Body selectivity; Configural processing; Extrastriate body area; Functional magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BODY REGIONS; BOLD SIGNAL; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; ART; BRAIN MAPPING; IMAGE PROCESSING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84960403399     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu205     Document Type: Article

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