Naso-temporal asymmetry of the N170 for processing faces in normal viewers but not in developmental prosopagnosia

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 376, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 40-45

  De Gelder, Beatrice ^a,b   Stekelenburg, Jeroen J ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

N170; Naso temporal asymmetry; Non LGN based vision; Prosopagnosia; Subcortical visual processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MONOCULAR VISION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSOPAGNOSIA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

EID: 13444254190     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.11.047     Document Type: Article

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