The improbable simplicity of the fusiform face area

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 251-254

  Weiner, Kevin S ^a   Grill Spector, Kalanit ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HUMAN; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NOTE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; NEUROIMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84860384660     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2012.03.003     Document Type: Note

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