The body inversion effect is mediated by face-selective, not body-selective, mechanisms

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 31, 2010, Pages 10534-10540

  Brandman, Talia ^a   Yovel, Galit ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDING; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 77955399712     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0911-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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