Lower-level stimulus features strongly influence responses in the fusiform face area

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 35-47

  Yue, Xiaomin ^a   Cassidy, Brittany S ^a   Devaney, Kathryn J ^a   Holt, Daphne J ^a   Tootell, Roger B H ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

CMF; Contrast gain; Face recognition; FFA; V1

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; LOWER LEVEL STIMULUS; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

FACE; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 78651280368     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq050     Document Type: Article

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