Perceiving age and gender in unfamiliar faces: An fMRI study on face categorization

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 163-168

  Wiese, Holger ^a   Kloth, Nadine ^a,b   Güllmar, Daniel ^c   Reichenbach, Jürgen R ^c   Schweinberger, Stefan R ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age categorization; Face perception; FMRI; Gender categorization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VOLUNTEER;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; BRAIN; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856225852     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2011.10.012     Document Type: Article

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