Automatic face identity encoding at the N170

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 28, 2006, Pages 4604-4614

  Heisz, Jennifer J ^a   Watter, Scott ^a   Shedden, Judith M ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Event related potentials; Face perception; Inversion effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33751015112     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.09.026     Document Type: Article

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