Own-species bias in the representations of monkey and human face categories in the primate temporal lobe

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2740-2752

  Sigala, R ^a   Logothetis, N K ^a,b   Rainer, G ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Macaque; Perception; Psychophysics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLASSIFICATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE PROFILE; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OWN SPECIES BIAS; PERCEPTION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SELF CONCEPT; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ANIMALS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 79959352277     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00882.2010     Document Type: Article

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