Hemispheric asymmetries in image-specific and abstractive priming of famous faces: Evidence from reaction times and event-related brain potentials

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 45, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 2910-2921

  Cooper, Tracy J ^a   Harvey, Monika ^a   Lavidor, Michal ^b   Schweinberger, Stefan R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Event related brain potential; Face recognition; Hemispheric asymmetry; N250r; N400; Priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; RECOGNITION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CUES; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 34548497116     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.06.005     Document Type: Article

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