High-resolution imaging reveals highly selective nonface clusters in the fusiform face area

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1177-1185

  Grill Spector, Kalanit ^a   Sayres, Rory ^a   Ress, David ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CELL POPULATION; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; STANDARD; VISION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FACE; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33748108161     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1745     Document Type: Article

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