‘Not only faces’: specialized visual representation of human hands revealed by adaptation
Classical neurophysiological studies demonstrated that the monkey brain is equipped with neurons selectively representing the visual shape of the primate hand. Neuroimaging in humans provided data suggesting that a similar representation can be found in humans. Here, we investigated the selectivity...
Main Authors: | Massimiliano Conson, Francesco Polito, Alessandro Di Rosa, Luigi Trojano, Gennaro Cordasco, Anna Esposito, Marco Turi |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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The Royal Society
2020-12-01
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Series: | Royal Society Open Science |
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Online Access: | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.200948 |
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