Controlling for interstimulus perceptual variance abolishes N170 face selectivity

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 505-511

  Thierry, Guillaume ^a   Martin, Clara D ^a,b   Downing, Paul ^a   Pegna, Alan J ^c  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 33947641649     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1864     Document Type: Article

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