The development of human high-level visual cortex
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Humans possess a remarkable ability to rapidly recognize a wide variety of ecologically important stimuli, stemming in large part from a constellation of specialized regions in the ventral temporal lobe referred to as high-level visual cortex. In adults, neurons causally involved in the perception of faces, words, and scenes cluster in anatomically-anchored locations of ventral temporal cortex, making both their structural and functional signatures readily detectible with in vivo magnetic resonance imaging. Given that the recognition of faces or words are practiced abilities that take time to develop, human ventral temporal cortex (VTC) is an ideal test bed to examine the role of visual experience in shaping the function and structure of cortex throughout development. Indeed, the collection of studies presented here is conducted within VTC, which demonstrate through innovative multi-modal single-subject techniques previously undocumented aspects of functional and anatomical brain development in human visual cortex. These results provide foundational insight into the origins of the human visual system and inform future research regarding what happens when this development goes awry.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Gomez, Jesse |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Grill-Spector, Kalanit |
| Thesis advisor | Grill-Spector, Kalanit |
| Thesis advisor | McNab, Jennifer (Jennifer A.) |
| Thesis advisor | Newsome, William T |
| Thesis advisor | Wandell, Brian A |
| Degree committee member | McNab, Jennifer (Jennifer A.) |
| Degree committee member | Newsome, William T |
| Degree committee member | Wandell, Brian A |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Neurosciences Program. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Jesse Gomez. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Neurosciences Program. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2018 by Jesse Lee Gomez
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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