Neural representations of personally familiar and unfamiliar faces in the anterior inferior temporal cortex of monkeys

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Eifuku, Satoshi ^a   de Souza, Wania C ^a   Nakata, Ryuzaburo ^a   Ono, Taketoshi ^a   Tamura, Ryoi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; ANIMAL; FACE; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RECOGNITION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FACE; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; NEURONS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); ROC CURVE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 79954496601     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018913     Document Type: Article

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