PSYD50H3 Lecture Notes - Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Visual Cortex, Cerebral Cortex
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Summary article #1: object-related activity revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging in human occipital cortex. The purpose of this study was to investigate the integration stages that lead to object recognition in the human visual cortex. The experimenters of this study used functional recognition magnetic resonance imaging (fmri) to gather their data. Fmri is described as a technique used to analyse brain activity by measuring the blood flow in the brain. The research hypothesis of this experiment is that there is object related activation in the human visual cortex that leads to object recognition. The reason why the experimenters chose to investigate this topic further is due to prior studies on monkeys. In the experiment with monkeys, they found that object recognition occurs in various stages, but all centralizing from one localized area in the primary visual cortex. In humans, it is unclear of the exact area that directly pertains to object recognition in the human cerebral cortex.
