The effect of face inversion on activity in human neural systems for face and object perception

Neuron

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 189-199

  Haxby, James V ^a   Ungerleider, Leslie G ^a   Clark, Vincent P ^b   Schouten, Jennifer L ^a   Hoffman, Elizabeth A ^a   Martin, Alex ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FACE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032932613     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80690-X     Document Type: Article

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