Expertise effects in face-selective areas are robust to clutter and diverted attention, but not to competition

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2610-2622

  McGugin, Rankin Williams ^a   Van Gulick, Ana E ^a   Tamber Rosenau, Benjamin J ^a   Ross, David A ^a   Gauthier, Isabel ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Competition; Expertise; FMRI; Fusiform

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; COMPETITION; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; BLOOD; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; STATISTICS; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84983273820     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu060     Document Type: Article

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