Perceived animacy influences the processing of human-like surface features in the fusiform gyrus

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 115-120

  Shultz, Sarah ^a,b,c   McCarthy, Gregory ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MARCUS AUTISM CENTER   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Animacy detection; Face processing; FMRI; Fusiform; Goal directed actions; Posterior superior temporal sulcus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; VISUAL STIMULATION; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FACE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902484324     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.05.019     Document Type: Article

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