Heterogeneous structure in face-selective human occipito-temporal cortex

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2276-2288

  Betts, Lisa R ^a,b   Wilson, Hugh R ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL STIMULATION; ADAPTATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; TEMPORAL LOBE; VASCULARIZATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

OXYGEN;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NERVE NET; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956933317     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21346     Document Type: Article

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