Common neural systems associated with the recognition of famous faces and names: An event-related fMRI study

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 491-498

  Nielson, Kristy A ^a,b   Seidenberg, Michael ^b,c   Woodard, John L ^b,c,d   Durgerian, Sally ^b   Zhang, Qi ^b   Gross, William L ^b   Gander, Amelia ^b   Guidotti, Leslie M ^b,c   Antuono, Piero ^b   Rao, Stephen M ^b,c,e  

^a Marquette University   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^d WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related functional MRI; Face name processing; Person identity network; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERE; HIPPOCAMPAL FIMBRIA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPRASYLVIAN GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FAMOUS PERSONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAMES; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77349107356     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2010.01.006     Document Type: Article

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