N170 or N1? Spatiotemporal Differences between Object and Face Processing Using ERPs

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 132-142

  Itier, Roxane J ^a   Taylor, Margot J ^b  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b Brain and Cognition Research Center in Toulouse   (France)

Author keywords

Faces; N1; N170; Objects; P1

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOPOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0942279681     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhg111     Document Type: Article

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