Neural correlations of familiar and Unfamiliar face recognition by using Event-Related fMRI

  • Kim, Jeong-Seok (Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, Kangnam St. Mary′s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea) ;
  • Jeun, Sin-Su (Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, Kangnam St. Mary′s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea) ;
  • Kim, Bum-Soo (Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, Kangnam St. Mary′s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea) ;
  • Choe, Bo-Young (Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, Kangnam St. Mary′s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea) ;
  • Lee, Hyoung-Koo (Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, Kangnam St. Mary′s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea) ;
  • Suh, Tae-Suk (Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, Kangnam St. Mary′s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea)
  • Published : 2003.10.01

Abstract

This event-related fMRI study was to further our understanding about how different brain regions could contribute to effective access of specific information related to cognitive process and shows the different response of brain regions involved in recognition of familiar faces compared to unfamiliar faces and repetition effect.

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