Facial recognition reactivates the primary visual cortex: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study in humans

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 350, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 21-24

  Okada, Tomohisa ^a,b   Tanaka, Shigeki ^b   Nakai, Toshiharu ^c   Nishizawa, Sadahiko ^b,d   Inui, Toshio ^b   Yonekura, Yoshiharu ^d   Konishi, Junji ^b   Sadato, Norihiro ^a,e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Face recognition; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Iconic memory; Pictorial code; Primary visual cortex; Sensory specific information

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0142011592     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00794-8     Document Type: Article

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