Expertise for cars and birds recruits brain areas involved in face recognition

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 191-197

  Gauthier, Isabel ^a,b   Skudlarski, Pawel ^b   Gore, John C ^b   Anderson, Adam W ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ANIMALS; AUTOMOBILES; BIRDS; BRAIN MAPPING; DATA DISPLAY; FACE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0033995948     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/72140     Document Type: Article

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