Brain imaging reveals neuronal circuitry underlying the crow's perception of human faces

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 39, 2012, Pages 15912-15917

  Marzluff, John M ^a   Miyaoka, Robert ^b   Minoshima, Satoshi ^b   Cross, Donna J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

F 18 fluorodeoxyglucose PET imaging; American crow; Cognition; Facial recognition; Learned fear

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; CROW; EMOTION; FACE; FEAR; GAZE; LATERAL STRIATUM; MESOPALLIUM; MOTIVATION; NEUROIMAGING; NIDOPALLIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROSTRAL HYPERPALLIUM; THALAMUS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CROWS; EMOTIONS; ESCAPE REACTION; FACE; HUMANS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CORVIDAE; CORVUS BRACHYRHYNCHOS; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84866847296     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1206109109     Document Type: Article

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