An early category-specific neural response for the perception of both places and faces

Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 45-51

  Rivolta, Davide ^a   Palermo, Romina ^b,c   Schmalzl, Laura ^a,d   Williams, Mark A ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN COGNITION AND ITS DISORDERS   (Australia)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Face perception; M100; MEG; Place perception; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FACE RECOGNITION; FEMALE; HIGH RESOLUTION MRI; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MEDIAL OCCIPITAL LOBE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PLACE RECOGNITION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84863393760     PISSN: 17588928     EISSN: 17588936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17588928.2011.604726     Document Type: Article

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