Neuropsychological mechanisms of visual face and body perception

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1133-1144

  Minnebusch, Denise A ^a   Daum, Irene ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body perception; Configural processing; Extrastriate body area; Fusiform body area; Inversion effect

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANALYTIC METHOD; BODY BUILD; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FACIES; GESTURE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINDLE CELL; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY;

BODY IMAGE; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; EMOTIONS; FACE; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 67649506173     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2009.05.008     Document Type: Review

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