Distributed Neural Systems for Face Perception

Oxford Handbook of Face Perception

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Haxby, James V ^a   Gobbini, M Ida ^b  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Eye gaze; Face perception; Neural systems; Social communication; Visual analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924289982     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199559053.013.0006     Document Type: Chapter

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