Two critical and functionally distinct stages of face and body perception

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 45, 2012, Pages 15877-15885

  Pitcher, David ^a,b   Goldhaber, Tanya ^a,d   Duchaine, Bradley ^c   Walsh, Vincent ^b   Kanwisher, Nancy ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRASTRIATE BODY AREA; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84868584234     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2624-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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