Early left-hemispheric dysfunction of face processing in congenital prosopagnosia: An MEG study

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Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Dobel, Christian ^a,b   Putsche, Christian ^a,b   Zwitserlood, Pienie ^b   Junghöfer, Markus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INDIVIDUALITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ORIENTATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PROSOPAGNOSIA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; BRAIN; CASE CONTROL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROSOPAGNOSIA; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 48449083666     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002326     Document Type: Article

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