Effects of Low-Spatial Frequency Components of Fearful Faces on Fusiform Cortex Activity

Current Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 1824-1829

  Winston, Joel S ^a   Vuilleumier, Patrik ^b   Dolan, Raymond J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

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EID: 0142136090     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2003.09.038     Document Type: Article

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