Dissociation of sensitivity to spatial frequency in word and face preferential areas of the fusiform gyrus

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2307-2312

  Woodhead, Zoe Victoria Joan ^a   Wise, Richard James Surtees ^a   Sereno, Marty ^b   Leech, Robert ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Faces; Fusiform gyrus; Object recognition; Reading; Ventral visual stream

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 80052753778     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr008     Document Type: Article

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