The fusiform face area: A module in human extrastriate cortex specialized for face perception

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 4302-4311

  Kanwisher, Nancy ^a,b   McDermott, Josh ^a,b   Chun, Marvin M ^b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

extrastriate cortex; face perception; functional MRI; fusiform gyrus; object recognition; ventral visual pathway

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 0030911020     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-11-04302.1997     Document Type: Article

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