Individuating faces and common objects produces equal responses in putative face-processing areas in the ventral occipitotemporal cortex

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Haist, Frank ^a,b   Lee, Kang ^c,d   Stiles, Joan ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Face processing; Functional mri; Fusiform face area; Occipital face area; Visual processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INDIVIDUALIZATION; LATERAL OCCIPITAL COMPLEX; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OCCIPITAL FACE AREA; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOCIAL COGNITION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

EID: 79953020188     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2010.00181     Document Type: Article

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