Facial expression and gaze-direction in human superior temporal sulcus

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 45, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 3234-3241

  Engell, Andrew D ^a   Haxby, James V ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Expression; Face; fMRI; Gaze; Non verbal communication; Perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAZE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34948845088     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.06.022     Document Type: Article

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