Different Cortical Dynamics in Face and Body Perception: An MEG study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Meeren, Hanneke K M ^a   de Gelder, Beatrice ^a   Ahlfors, Seppo P ^b   Hämäläinen, Matti S ^b   Hadjikhani, Nouchine ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXTRASTRIATE BODY AREA; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883623372     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071408     Document Type: Article

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