Brain regions sensitive to the face inversion effect: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study in humans

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 342, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 143-146

  Leube, Dirk T ^a   Yoon, Hyo Woon ^b   Rapp, Alexander ^a   Erb, Michael ^a   Grodd, Wolfgang ^a   Bartels, Mathias ^a   Kircher, Tilo T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Configural processing; Face inversion effect; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Insula; Superior temporal sulcus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SUBICULUM; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0038708241     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00232-5     Document Type: Article

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