Face inversion disrupts the perception of vertical relations between features in the right human occipito-temporal cortex

Journal of Neuropsychology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-67

  Goffaux, Valerie ^a,b   Rossion, Bruno ^b   Sorger, Bettina ^a   Schiltz, Christine ^b,c   Goebel, Rainer ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VASCULARIZATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ORIENTATION; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64549131365     PISSN: 17486645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/174866408X292670     Document Type: Article

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