An image-dependent representation of familiar and unfamiliar faces in the human ventral stream

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1627-1635

  Davies Thompson, Jodie ^a   Gouws, André ^a   Andrews, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; FFA; OFA; STS; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 63049122662     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.01.017     Document Type: Article

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