Effects of face inversion on the structural encoding and recognition of faces - Evidence from event-related brain potentials

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 10, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 145-158

  Eimer, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Event related brain potential; Face perception; Face recognition; Semantic processes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0033832226     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(00)00038-0     Document Type: Article

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