Brain potentials reveal the timing of face identity and expression judgments

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 25-34

  Münte, Thomas F ^a,b   Brack, Martina ^a   Grootheer, Olaf ^a   Wieringa, Bernardina M ^a   Matzke, Mike ^a   Johannes, Sönke ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related potential; Expression; Face processing; Humans; Identity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDENTITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ANGER; BRAIN; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SMILING;

EID: 0031885063     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-0102(97)00118-1     Document Type: Article

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