Role of ordinal contrast relationships in face encoding

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 5353-5358

  Gilad, Sharon ^a   Meng, Ming ^b   Sinha, Pawan ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast negation; Face perception; FMRI; Neural representation; Object recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

FACE; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 65249184489     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0812396106     Document Type: Article

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