The effects of inversion and eye displacements of familiar and unknown faces on early and late-stage ERPs

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 141-151

  Caharel, Stéphanie ^a   Fiori, Nicole ^b   Bernard, Christian ^a   Lalonde, Robert ^a   Rebaï, Mohamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Configural processing; ERPs; Face memory; Face perception; Face recognition; Inversion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; EYE; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33748282559     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2006.03.002     Document Type: Article

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