A network of occipito-temporal face-sensitive areas besides the right middle fusiform gyrus is necessary for normal face processing

Brain

Volumn 126, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2381-2395

  Rossion, Bruno ^b   Caldara, Roberto ^a   Seghier, Mohamed ^a   Schuller, Anne Marie ^b   Lazeyras, Francois ^a   Mayer, Eugene ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Face recognition; Feedback; FFA; Fusiform gyrus; Prosopagnosia; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NEURORADIOLOGY; NEUROTRAUMATOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RECOGNITION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROSOPAGNOSIA; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0142153172     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awg241     Document Type: Article

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