High-resolution imaging of expertise reveals reliable object selectivity in the fusiform face area related to perceptual performance

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

Volumn 109, Issue 42, 2012, Pages 17063-17068

  McGugin, Rankin Williams ^a   Gatenby, J Christopher ^b   Gore, John C ^a,c   Gauthier, Isabel ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Individual differences; Neural selectivity; Object recognition; Response reliability; Ventral temporal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; CAR; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AUTOMOBILES; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84867653235     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1116333109     Document Type: Article

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