Nonpreferred stimuli modify the representation of faces in the fusiform face area

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 746-756

  Axelrod, Vadim ^a   Yovel, Galit ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTACLES; SPINDLE CELL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 78650346468     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21481     Document Type: Article

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