Face processing without awareness in the right fusiform gyrus

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 45, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 3087-3091

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

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Face processing; FMRI; Perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SUBICULUM; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BRAIN MAPPING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 34548486904     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.05.020     Document Type: Article

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