Revisiting the role of the fusiform face area in visual expertise

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1234-1242

  Xu, Yaoda ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Face perception; FFA; fMRI; Learning; Visual expertise

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; HUMANS; LEARNING; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 25444469720     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhi006     Document Type: Article

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