The effect of face inversion on the human fusiform face area

Cognition

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1998, Pages

  Kanwisher, Nancy ^a,b   Tong, Frank ^c   Nakayama, Ken ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MA GenHosp   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Face inversion; Face perception; fMRI; Fusiform face area

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; FACE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MENTAL FUNCTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REFERENCE VALUES; STATISTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0011142125     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(98)00035-3     Document Type: Article

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