Representations of facial identity information in the ventral visual stream investigated with multivoxel pattern analyses

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 8549-8558

  Goesaert, Elfi ^a   Op de Beeck, Hans P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; PARIETAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRAINING; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

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

EID: 84877268525     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1829-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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