Internal and external features of the face are represented holistically in face-selective regions of visual cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3544-3552

  Andrews, Timothy J ^a   Davies Thompson, Jodie ^a   Kingstone, Alan ^b   Young, Andrew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; STIMULUS; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77749336634     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4863-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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