Successful decoding of famous faces in the fusiform face area

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Axelrod, Vadim ^a   Yovel, Galit ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE RECOGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FACIAL RECOGNITION; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FACIAL RECOGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923881913     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117126     Document Type: Article

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