Neural developmental changes in processing inverted faces

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 223-235

  Joseph, Jane E ^a,b   Gathers, Ann D ^a   Liu, Xun ^a   Corbly, Christine R ^a   Whitaker, Sarah K ^a   Bhatt, Ramesh S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PHOTOGRAPHY; RECOGNITION; SCHOOL CHILD; STANDING; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33845922020     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/CABN.6.3.223     Document Type: Article

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