The role of gamma-band activity in the representation of faces: Reduced activity in the fusiform face area in congenital prosopagnosia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Dobel, Christian ^a   Junghöfer, Markus ^a   Gruber, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE PROFILE; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; GAMMA RHYTHM; HIGH FREQUENCY OSCILLATION; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROSOPAGNOSIA; SEMANTIC MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; FACE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; RECOGNITION;

FACE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 79955865420     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019550     Document Type: Article

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