Looking for faces: Attention modulates early occipitotemporal object processing

Psychophysiology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 350-360

  Lueschow, Andreas ^a   Sander, Tilmann ^a,b   Boehm, Stephan G ^a   Nolte, Guido ^a,b   Trahms, Lutz ^b   Curio, Gabriel ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Face processing; M170; MEG; Signal space projection; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 2642562937     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2004.00159.x     Document Type: Article

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