The neural basis of categorical face perception: Graded representations of face gender in fusiform and orbitofrontal cortices

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1314-1322

  Freeman, Jonathan B ^a   Rule, Nicholas O ^a   Adams, Reginald B ^b   Ambady, Nalini ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorical perception; Face gender; Face perception; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Fusiform cortex; Orbitofrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROIMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARAMETER; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 77952855508     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp195     Document Type: Article

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