Occipitotemporal activation evoked by the perception of human bodies is modulated by the presence or absence of the face

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1919-1927

  Morris, James P ^a   Pelphrey, Kevin A ^a   McCarthy, Gregory ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Face processing; fMRI; Social cognitive neuroscience; Social perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; LIMB; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROSCIENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; SHOULDER; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TRUNK;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 33745271818     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.01.035     Document Type: Article

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