A preference for contralateral stimuli in human object- and face-selective cortex

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Hemond, Christopher C ^a   Kanwisher, Nancy G ^a,b   Op de Beeck, Hans P ^a,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIES; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOLUNTEER; ACTION POTENTIAL; ATTENTION; FACE; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 36148956419     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000574     Document Type: Article

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