Top-down activation of fusiform cortex without seeing faces in prosopagnosia

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1878-1890

  Righart, Ruthger ^a   Andersson, Frédéric ^a   Schwartz, Sophie ^a   Mayer, Eugne ^b   Vuilleumier, Patrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

face processing; fMRI; fusiform face area; occipital face area; prosopagnosia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CASE REPORT; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FACE; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NOISE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSOPAGNOSIA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROSOPAGNOSIA; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 77955945043     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp254     Document Type: Article

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