The lateral occipital cortex in the face perception network: An effective connectivity study

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue MAY, 2012, Pages

  Nagy, Krisztina ^a,b   Greenlee, Mark W ^a   Kovács, Gyula ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Dynamic causal modeling; Effective connectivity; Face perception; Fusiform face area; Lateral occip

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867067027     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00141     Document Type: Article

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