Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience articles from September 1997

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience archives from September 1997

What is special about face recognition? Nineteen experiments on a person with visual object agnosia and dyslexia but normal face recognition.
September 1, 1997... INTRODUCTION Domain specificity of processing mechanisms is a central concern of cognitive neuroscience. This issue is especially relevant to research on the recognition of faces: Does face recognition involve processes and neural mechanisms...

Face-specific processing in the human fusiform gyrus.
September 1, 1997... INTRODUCTION There are several reasons for believing that human faces are a biologically important class of visual objects that may be processed by specialized brain mechanisms (reviewed by Bruce & Humphreys, 1994). Damage to occipitotemporal...

How do monkeys look at faces?
September 1, 1997... INTRODUCTION The ability to discern the meaning or importance of various sensory stimuli is an essential component in the life of sentient organisms such as primates. This is especially true in the area of social communication. Both human and...

Increases in subcortical structures and cerebellum but not in nonvisual context.(Common Blood Flow Changes Across Visual Tasks, Part 1)
September 1, 1997... INTRODUCTION Although many studies have found that specific regions of the brain are activated during particular tasks, it is also possible that some brain regions perform very general functions and are active across a wide variety of tasks....

Decreases in cerebral cortex.(Common Blood Flow Changes Across Visual Tasks)
September 1, 1997... INTRODUCTION Task-dependent increases in cerebral blood flow are often demonstrated by comparing an active task to a passive condition in which the same stimulus is presented but the subject is not given a task. Surprisingly, large blood flow...

Sentence reading: a functional MRI study at 4 Tesla.
September 1, 1997... INTRODUCTION The study of the neurobiology of language has been dominated by an approach, defined in the last century, which hypothesized a few, well-circumscribed cerebral regions or centers specialized for activities related to language....

On the different processing of wholes and parts: a psychophysiological analysis.
September 1, 1997... INTRODUCTION Hierarchical scenes in which some distinct objects are embedded within other objects occur in many situations. A common illustration is a face that, as a compound figure, is composed of eyes, a nose, and a mouth, etc. The latter...