Neurons that keep a straight face

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

Volumn 111, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 7894-7895

  Freiwald, Winrich A ^a   Tsao, Doris Y ^b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; FACE; FACIES; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; NERVE CELL; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SPECIALIZATION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; FACE; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 84901857122     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1406865111     Document Type: Note

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