A perceptual traffic jam on highway N170: Interference between face and car expertise

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 30-33

  Gauthier, Isabel ^a   Curby, Kim M ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Face recognition; Fusiform face area (FFA); Interference; Modularity

Indexed keywords

EID: 15744377448     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0963-7214.2005.00329.x     Document Type: Article

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