Face-specific responses from the human inferior occipito-temporal cortex

Neuroscience

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 49-55

  Sams, M ^a,c   Hietanen, J K ^b   Hari, R ^a   Ilmoniemi, R J ^a   Lounasmaa, O V ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Evoked responses; Face; Human; Magnetoencephalography; Perception; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FACE; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0031019870     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(96)00419-8     Document Type: Article

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