Adaptation in the fusiform face area (FFA): Image or person?

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 2800-2807

  Xu, Xiaokun ^a   Yue, Xiaomin ^b   Lescroart, Mark D ^a   Biederman, Irving ^a   Kim, Jiye G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Face recognition; Face representation; fMRI adaptation; Fusiform face area; Gabor jet scaling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDENTITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA IMAGE; VISION; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449529877     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.08.021     Document Type: Article

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