Is high-spatial frequency information used in the early stages of face detection?

Brain Research

Volumn 1117, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 154-161

  Halit, H ^a   de Haan, M ^b   Schyns, P G ^c   Johnson, M H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ERP; Face processing; N170; Spatial frequency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33749996726     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.07.059     Document Type: Article

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