Culture differences in neural processing of faces and houses in the ventral visual cortex

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 227-235

  Goh, Joshua O S ^a,b   Leshikar, Eric D ^a   Sutton, Bradley P ^a   Tan, Jiat Chow ^c   Sim, Sam K Y ^c   Hebrank, Andrew C ^b   Park, Denise C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Culture; Faces; Houses; Selectivity; Ventral visual

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FACE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN MAPPING; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954477783     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsq060     Document Type: Article

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