The role of occipitotemporal body-selective regions in person perception

Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 186-203

  Downing, Paul E ^a   Peelen, Marius V ^b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action perception; Body perception; Emotional gestures; Extrastriate body area; Fusiform body area; Self other distinction

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; EMOTIONALITY; EXTRASTRIATE BODY AREA; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; MOTOR CONTROL; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 80055105012     PISSN: 17588928     EISSN: 17588936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17588928.2011.582945     Document Type: Article

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