An event-related potentials study of biological motion perception in humans

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 344, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 41-44

  Hirai, Masahiro ^a   Fukushima, Hirokata ^a   Hiraki, Kazuo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biological motion; Electroencephalography; Event related potentials; Inter hemispheric difference; Motion perception; Superior temporal sulcus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VELOCITY;

EID: 0038021113     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00413-0     Document Type: Article

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