Effect of task difficulty on cerebral blood flow during perceptual matching of faces

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 227-239

  Grady, Cheryl L ^a,c   Horwitz, Barry ^a   Pietrini, Pietro ^a   Mentis, Marc J ^a   Ungerleider, Leslie G ^b   Rapoport, Stanley I ^a   Haxby, James V ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

brain mapping; form perception; human; PET; vision

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

EID: 0030438412     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0193(1996)4:4<227::AID-HBM1>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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