Holistic face categorization in higher order visual areas of the normal and prosopagnosic brain: Toward a non-hierarchical view of face perception

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Rossion, Bruno ^a   Dricot, Laurence ^a   Goebel, Rainer ^b   Busigny, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Face perception; FFA; Fusiform gyrus; Mooney; Prosopagnosia; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HUMAN; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PERCEPTION; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 79953009918     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2010.00225     Document Type: Article

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