Neurophysiological evidence for visual perceptual categorization of words and faces within 150 ms

Psychophysiology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 240-251

  Schendan, Haline E ^a,c   Ganis, Giorgio ^b   Kutas, Marta ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Face perception; Perceptual skill learning; Posterior fusiform gyrus; Visual perceptual categorization; Word perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL SYSTEM; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; HUMANS; READING; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0000555266     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S004857729897010X     Document Type: Article

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