Many faces of expertise: Fusiform face area in chess experts and novices

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 28, 2011, Pages 10206-10214

  Bilalić, Merim ^a   Langner, Robert ^b,c   Ulrich, Rolf ^a   Grodd, Wolfgang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL SUMMATION; SPORT; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79960418084     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5727-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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