When the brain remembers, but the patient doesn't: Converging fMRI and EEG evidence for covert recognition in a case of prosopagnosia

Cortex

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 825-838

  Simon, Stéphane R ^a   Khateb, Asaid ^a,b   Darque, Alexandra ^a   Lazeyras, François ^a   Mayer, Eugene ^a   Pegna, Alan J ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Awareness; Event related potentials; Faces; FFA; Functional imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALIZATION; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RECOGNITION;

AWARENESS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 79956100566     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2010.07.009     Document Type: Article

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