Perceptual dominance of oriented faces mirrors the distribution of orientation tunings in inferotemporal neurons

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 771-780

  Donnelly, Nick ^a   Hadwin, Julie A ^a   Cave, Kyle ^a   Stevenage, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognition; Development; Face perception; Inferotemporal neurons; Neural basis of behavior; Overlapping faces

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINEAR SYSTEM; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ADULT; AGING; CHILD; FACE; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; ORIENTATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 1642386201     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(03)00201-5     Document Type: Article

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