A Brain Network Processing the Age of Faces

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Homola, György A ^a   Jbabdi, Saad ^b   Beckmann, Christian F ^b,c   Bartsch, Andreas J ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ANGULAR GYRUS; ARCUATE FASCICULUS; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMETRY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRACTOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMETRICS; SEX FACTORS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84869830299     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049451     Document Type: Article

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