Image-invariant responses in face-selective regions do not explain the perceptual advantage for familiar face recognition

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 370-377

  Davies Thompson, Jodie ^a,b   Newling, Katherine ^a   Andrews, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

face recognition; FFA; FRU; image invariance

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; FACE; FACE RECOGNITION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY;

BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872355416     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs024     Document Type: Article

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