Face inversion reduces the persistence of global form and its neural correlates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Strother, Lars ^a   Mathuranath, Pavagada S ^a,b   Aldcroft, Adrian ^a   Lavell, Cheryl ^a   Goodale, Melvyn A ^a   Vilis, Tutis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROOPHTHALMOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SECONDARY VISUAL CORTEX; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL AREA V4; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; FACE; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALIA;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; OCCIPITAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954552573     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018705     Document Type: Article

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