Neural responses to Mooney images reveal a modular representation of faces in human visual cortex

NeuroImage

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 91-98

  Andrews, Timothy J ^a   Schluppeck, Denis ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Awareness; FMRI; Object recognition; Perception; Temporal lobe; Ventral pathway

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINDLE CELL; SUBICULUM; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 1642574426     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2003.08.023     Document Type: Article

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