Featural and configural face processing strategies: Evidence from a functional magnetic resonance imaging study

NeuroReport

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 287-291

  Lobmaier, Janek S ^a   Klaver, Peter ^a,b   Loenneker, Thomas ^b   Martin, Ernst ^b   Mast, Fred W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Configural information; Face processing; Featural information; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Fusiform face area; Occipital lobe; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; FACE; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 40049096630     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3282f556fe     Document Type: Article

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