Evidence for individual face discrimination in non-face selective areas of the visual cortex in acquired prosopagnosia

Behavioural Neurology

Volumn 19, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 75-79

  Dricot, Laurence ^a   Sorger, Bettina ^b   Schiltz, Christine ^a   Goebel, Rainer ^b   Rossion, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptation; FFA; fMRI; Fusiform gyrus; OFA; Prosopagnosia; vLOC

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSOPAGNOSIA; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 42049098199     PISSN: 09534180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2008/561476     Document Type: Conference Paper

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