N400-like potentials elicited by faces and knowledge inhibition

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 133-144

  Debruille, Jacques B ^a   Pineda, Jaime ^b   Renault, Bernard ^c  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE FERNAND SEGUIN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Context; Event related potential; Face; Inhibition; Knowledge; N400; N400 like

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030245560     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0926-6410(96)00032-8     Document Type: Article

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