Nature versus Nurture in Ventral Visual Cortex: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Twins Export

@article{citeulike:2148106, abstract = {Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we estimated neural activity in twins to study genetic influences on the cortical response to categories of visual stimuli (faces, places, and pseudowords) that are known to elicit distinct patterns of activity in ventral visual cortex. The neural activity patterns in monozygotic twins were significantly more similar than in dizygotic twins for the face and place stimuli, but there was no effect of zygosity for pseudowords (or chairs, a control category). These results demonstrate that genetics play a significant role in determining the cortical response to faces and places, but play a significantly smaller role (if any) in the response to orthographic stimuli. 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4001-07.2007}, author = {Polk, Thad A. and Park, Joonkoo and Smith, Mason R. and Park, Denise C.}, citeulike-article-id = {2148106}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4001-07.2007}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/abstract/27/51/13921}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18094229}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=18094229}, day = {19}, doi = {10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4001-07.2007}, journal = {J. Neurosci.}, keywords = {visual\_cortex}, month = {December}, number = {51}, pages = {13921--13925}, posted-at = {2009-06-12 10:46:53}, priority = {2}, title = {Nature versus Nurture in Ventral Visual Cortex: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Twins}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4001-07.2007}, volume = {27}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2148106 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2148106 N2 - Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we estimated neural activity in twins to study genetic influences on the cortical response to categories of visual stimuli (faces, places, and pseudowords) that are known to elicit distinct patterns of activity in ventral visual cortex. The neural activity patterns in monozygotic twins were significantly more similar than in dizygotic twins for the face and place stimuli, but there was no effect of zygosity for pseudowords (or chairs, a control category). These results demonstrate that genetics play a significant role in determining the cortical response to faces and places, but play a significantly smaller role (if any) in the response to orthographic stimuli. 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4001-07.2007 IS - 51 JF - J. Neurosci. EP - 13925 TI - Nature versus Nurture in Ventral Visual Cortex: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Twins VL - 27 SP - 13921 KW - visual_cortex AU - Polk, Thad AU - Park, Joonkoo AU - Smith, Mason AU - Park, Denise PY - 2007/12/19/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4001-07.2007 ER -