Early selection of diagnostic facial information in the human visual cortex

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 6-7, 2006, Pages 800-813

  Joyce, Carrie A ^a   Schyns, Philippe G ^b   Gosselin, Frédéric ^c   Cottrell, Garrison W ^a   Rossion, Bruno ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Diagnostic information; Event related potentials; Face perception; N170

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE PROFILE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 29544447976     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2005.09.016     Document Type: Article

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