Neural correlates of perceiving emotional faces and bodies in developmental prosopagnosia: An event-related fMRI-study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Van den Stock, Jan ^a,b   van de Riet, Wim A C ^a   Righart, Ruthger ^a   de Gelder, Beatrice ^a,c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PROSOPAGNOSIA; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; ART; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROSOPAGNOSIA;

EID: 52449133652     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003195     Document Type: Article

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