Dissociable cortical pathways for qualitative and quantitative mechanisms in the face inversion effect

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 4268-4279

  Matsuyoshi, Daisuke ^a,b,c   Morita, Tomoyo ^a,b   Kochiyama, Takanori ^d   Tanabe, Hiroki C ^a,e   Sadato, Norihiro ^a,f,g   Kakigi, Ryusuke ^a,f  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^e NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dynamic causal modeling; Face inversion effect; fMRI; Inhibition; Object recognition; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CAUSAL MODELING; EYE FIXATION; FACE INVERSION EFFECT; FEMALE; FRONTAL GYRUS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FACE; IMAGE PROCESSING; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924455170     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3960-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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