Face recognition under ambiguous visual stimulation: fMRI correlates of "encoding styles"

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1750-1761

  Frühholz, Sascha ^a   Godde, Ben ^a,b   Lewicki, Paul ^c   Herzmann, Charlotte ^a   Herrmann, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

Author keywords

Encoding style; Face perception; FMRI; Gender decision; Individual differences

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLASSIFICATION; DECISION MAKING; FACE RECOGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INDIVIDUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052688846     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21144     Document Type: Article

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