Who is who: Areas of the brain associated with recognizing and naming famous faces - Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 289-299

  Giussani, Carlo ^a,c   Roux, Franck Emmanuel ^a   Bello, Lorenzo ^a   Lauwers Cances, Valérie ^b   Papagno, Costanza ^d   Gaini, Sergio M ^c   Puel, Michelle ^a   Démonet, Jean François ^a  

^a CHU PURPAN   (France)

^b TOULOUSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain mapping; Cortical stimulation; Face naming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ANOMIA; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RECALL; RECOGNITION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; AGED; ANOMIA; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROSOPAGNOSIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 62649095829     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2007.8.17566     Document Type: Article

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