A distributed neural system for top-down face processing

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 451, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 6-10

  Li, Jun ^a   Liu, Jiangang ^b   Liang, Jimin ^a   Zhang, Hongchuan ^d   Zhao, Jizheng ^a   Huber, David E ^e   Rieth, Cory A ^e   Lee, Kang ^f   Tian, Jie ^a,c   Shi, Guangming ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributed cortical network; Face processing; fMRI; Psychophysiological interaction (PPI); Top down processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; DECISION MAKING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL INFORMATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FACE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58649107345     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.12.039     Document Type: Article

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