Electrophysiological neural mechanisms for detection, configural analysis and recognition of faces

NeuroImage

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1407-1416

  Anaki, David ^a   Zion Golumbic, Elana ^a   Bentin, Shlomo ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Configural analysis; EEG; Faces; Gamma oscillations; N170; Recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34548539446     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.05.054     Document Type: Article

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