A property of face representation at the categorical level

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 448, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-5

  Sung, Yul Wan ^a   Ogawa, Seiji ^a  

^a TOHOKU FUKUSHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Category; Conceptual processing; Face; FMRI; Imagery; Perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGERY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RECOGNITION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 55549142151     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.09.053     Document Type: Article

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