Interplay between familiarity and orientation in face processing: An ERP study

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 182-192

  Marzi, Tessa ^a   Viggiano, Maria Pia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Configural processing; ERPs; Face processing; Face recognition; Familiarity effect; Inversion; Structural encoding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

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

EID: 34548011725     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2007.04.003     Document Type: Article

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