Structural encoding of body and face in human infants and adults

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1328-1340

  Gliga, Teodora ^a,c   Dehaene Lambertz, Ghislaine ^a,b  

^a SERVICE HOSPITALIER FRÉDÉRIC JOLIOT   (France)

^b BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c DIF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SWEATING; VISION;

ADULT; AGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; INFANT; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 23944481318     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0898929055002481     Document Type: Article

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