The fusiform face area responds automatically to statistical regularities optimal for face categorization

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1615-1625

  Caldara, Roberto ^a   Seghier, Mohamed L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extrastriate cortex; Face recognition; FMRI; Functional localization; Visual stimuli

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FACE; FACE RECOGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66149098553     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20626     Document Type: Article

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