Representations of individuals in ventral temporal cortex defined by faces and biographies

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2100-2108

  Verosky, Sara C ^a   Todorov, Alexander ^b   Turk Browne, Nicholas B ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Facial identity; Familiarity; FMRI adaptation; Learning; Multi voxel pattern analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VENTRAL TEMPORAL CORTEX;

FACIAL IDENTITY; FAMILIARITY; FMRI ADAPTATION; LEARNING; MULTI-VOXEL PATTERN ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84882787571     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.07.006     Document Type: Article

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