Neuronal Correlates of Face Identification in the Monkey Anterior Temporal Cortical Areas

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 358-371

  Eifuku, Satoshi ^a   De Souza, Wania C ^a   Tamura, Ryoi ^a   Nishijo, Hisao ^a   Ono, Taketoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; ANTERIOR SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIES; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; MACACA; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0345827420     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00198.2003     Document Type: Article

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