Face versus non-face object perception and the 'other-race' effect: A spatio-temporal event-related potential study

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 515-528

  Caldara, R ^a   Thut, G ^b   Servoir, P ^c   Michel, C M ^b   Bovet, P ^a   Renault, B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Face processing; Source reconstruction; Temporal segmentation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BRAIN MAPPING; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 0038025944     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(02)00407-8     Document Type: Article

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