Domain specificity in face perception

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Aug 2000 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Nature Neuroscience, volume 3, pages 759-763 (issn: 1097-6256, eissn: 1546-1726,

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Authors: N, Kanwisher;

doi: 10.1038/77664

pmid: 10903567

Domain specificity in face perception

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Abstract

Is face perception carried out by modules specialized only for processing faces? Or are faces perceived by domain-general mechanisms that can also operate on non-face stimuli? Considerable evidence supports the domain-specific view.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States

Keywords

Form Perception, Neurons, Brain Mapping, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Face, Brain, Humans

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