What's unique about unique entities? An fMRI investigation of the semantics of famous faces and landmarks

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2005-2015

  Ross, Lars A ^a   Olson, Ingrid R ^b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

anterior temporal lobe; concepts; face perception; semantic memory; social neuroscience

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL COGNITION; TRAINING;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NAMES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS;

EID: 84864959171     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr274     Document Type: Article

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