Modulation of the face- and body-selective visual regions by the motion and emotion of point-light face and body stimuli

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1700-1712

  Atkinson, Anthony P ^a   Vuong, Quoc C ^b   Smithson, Hannah E ^a,c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biological motion; Extrastriate body area; Fusiform face area; Multivoxel pattern analysis; Point light display

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EXTRASTRIATE BODY AREA; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM BODY AREA; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECT; BODY IMAGE; BRAIN; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83055188046     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.08.073     Document Type: Article

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