Role of fusiform and anterior temporal cortical areas in facial recognition

NeuroImage

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1743-1753

  Nasr, Shahin ^a   Tootell, Roger B H ^a,b,c,d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior temporal face patch; Contrast reversal; Face inversion; Face recognition; FFA; FMRI

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COLLATERAL SULCUS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FACIES; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866479527     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.08.031     Document Type: Article

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