Responses in the right posterior superior temporal sulcus show a feature-based response to facial expression

Cortex

Volumn 69, Issue , 2015, Pages 14-23

  Flack, Tessa R ^a   Andrews, Timothy J ^a   Hymers, Mark ^a   Al Mosaiwi, Mohammed ^a   Marsden, Samuel P ^a   Strachan, James W A ^a   Trakulpipat, Chayanit ^a   Wang, Liang ^a   Wu, Tian ^a   Young, Andrew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emotion; Facial expression; Holistic perception; Posterior STS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; BRAIN MAPPING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928943699     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2015.03.002     Document Type: Article

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