Connectivity analysis reveals a cortical network for eye gaze perception

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1780-1787

  Nummenmaa, Lauri ^a,b   Passamonti, Luca ^b,c   Rowe, James ^b,d   Engell, Andrew D ^e   Calder, Andrew J ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

attention; effective connectivity; face perception; fMRI; social attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; CINGULATE GYRUS; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955935540     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp244     Document Type: Article

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