Representations of facial identity in the left hemisphere require right hemisphere processing

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1006-1017

  Verosky, Sara C ^a   Turk Browne, Nicholas B ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE IDENTIFICATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857553204     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00196     Document Type: Article

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