Revisiting the role of the fusiform face area in expertise

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1345-1357

  Bilalić, Merim ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

ACTIVATION PATTERNS; COMPLEX SCENES; FACE PERCEPTIONS; MULTIPLE OBJECTS; MULTIVARIATE PATTERN ANALYSIS; SENSITIVE METHOD; SPATIAL RELATIONS; VISUAL EXPERTISE;

FLOOD CONTROL;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIVIDUALIZATION; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKILL; STIMULATION; ADULT; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECREATIONAL GAME; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION;

ADULT; GAMES, RECREATIONAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84982850661     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00974     Document Type: Article

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