Faces and eyes in human lateral prefrontal cortex

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUNE, 2011, Pages

  Chan, Annie W Y ^a   Downing, Paul E ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eyes; Faces; FFA; fMRI; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; EYE MOVEMENT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRECENTRAL SULCUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RIGHT INFERIOR FRONTAL SULCUS; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

EID: 82955198524     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00051     Document Type: Article

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