The fusiform face area subserves face perception, not generic within-category identification

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 555-562

  Grill Spector, Kalanit ^a   Knouf, Nicholas ^b   Kanwisher, Nancy ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CAR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DATA DISPLAY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 2142695724     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1224     Document Type: Article

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