The amygdala and FFA track both social and non-social face dimensions

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3596-3605

  Said, Christopher P ^a   Dotsch, Ron ^b   Todorov, Alexander ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Face perception; FFA; OFA; PSTS; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; FACE; FEMALE; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957323070     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.08.009     Document Type: Article

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