Unraveling the distributed neural code of facial identity through spatiotemporal pattern analysis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 9998-10003

  Nestor, Adrian ^a   Plaut, David C ^a   Behrmann, Marlene ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; DATA ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FACE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959949625     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1102433108     Document Type: Article

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