Sensitive periods for the functional specialization of the neural system for human face processing

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 42, 2013, Pages 16760-16765

  Röder, Brigitte ^a   Ley, Pia ^a   Shenoy, Bhamy H ^b   Kekunnaya, Ramesh ^b   Bottari, Davide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b L V PRASAD EYE INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FACE DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CHILD; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84885807116     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1309963110     Document Type: Article

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