Taking Apart the Neural Machinery of Face Processing

Oxford Handbook of Face Perception

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Freiwald, Winrich ^a,b,c   Tsao, Doris ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Face patch system; Face recognition; Macaque monkeys; Object recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924303487     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199559053.013.0036     Document Type: Chapter

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