When eye creates the contact! ERP evidence for early dissociation between direct and averted gaze motion processing

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 45, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 3024-3037

  Conty, Laurence ^a,b   N'Diaye, Karim ^a,c   Tijus, Charles ^b   George, Nathalie ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 8   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Evoked potential; Gaze contact; Gaze movement; Social cognition; Source localisation; Theory of Mind

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE MOVEMENT; FACE; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RESPONSE TIME; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34548479718     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.05.017     Document Type: Article

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