The role of lateral occipital face and object areas in the face inversion effect

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3448-3453

  Pitcher, David ^a,b   Duchaine, Bradley ^c   Walsh, Vincent ^b   Yovel, Galit ^d   Kanwisher, Nancy ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Face perception; Lateral occipital area; Object recognition; Occipital face area; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FACIES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INVERTED FACE POSITION; MALE; OBJECT RELATION; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UPRIGHT FACE POSITION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053596361     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.08.020     Document Type: Article

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