The fusiform face area is engaged in holistic, not parts-based, representation of faces

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Zhang, Jiedong ^a   Li, Xiaobai ^a   Song, Yiying ^a   Liu, Jia ^a,b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; FACE PROFILE; FACIES; FEMALE; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL FACE AREA; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863666874     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040390     Document Type: Article

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