Multivoxel patterns in face-sensitive temporal regions reveal an encoding schema based on detecting life in a face

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 799-805

  Looser, Christine E ^a   Guntupalli, Jyothi S ^a   Wheatley, Thalia ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Face perception; Mind perception; MVPA; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FACE; FACE PERCEPTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIND PERCEPTION; MVPA; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL COGNITION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

FACE PERCEPTION; MIND PERCEPTION; MVPA; SOCIAL COGNITION;

BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84879150277     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss078     Document Type: Article

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