The neural correlates of perceiving human bodies: An ERP study on the body-inversion effect

NeuroReport

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 777-780

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

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Emotional processing; Event related potentials; Face perception; Inversion effect; NI70; Whole body perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY INVERSION EFFECT; BRAIN REGION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL N170; FACE; FEAR; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VERTEX POSITIVE POTENTIAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY IMAGE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; MALE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 1842504479     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200404090-00007     Document Type: Article

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