Covert visual attention modulates face-specific activity in the human fusiform gyrus: fMRI study

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1574-1578

  Wojciulik, Ewa ^a,b,c   Kanwisher, Nancy ^b,c   Driver, Jon ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0031893479     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1998.79.3.1574     Document Type: Article

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