The fusiform face area is selective for faces not animals

NeuroReport

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 183-187

  Kanwisher, Nancy ^a,b   Stanley, Damian ^a,b   Harris, Alison ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Category specific impairments; Extrastriate cortex; Face perception; FFA; fMRI; Fusiform face area; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0033580094     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-199901180-00035     Document Type: Article

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