Functional specialization and convergence in the occipito-temporal cortex supporting haptic and visual identification of human faces and body parts: An fMRI study

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2027-2045

  Kitada, Ryo ^a,c   Johnsrude, Ingrid S ^a   Kochiyama, Takanori ^b   Lederman, Susan J ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ATR Brain Activity Imaging Center   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TACTILE MEMORY; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEMPORAL LOBE; TOUCH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349264124     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21115     Document Type: Article

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