Explicit versus implicit gaze processing assessed by ERPs

Brain Research

Volumn 1177, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 79-89

  Itier, Roxane J ^a   Alain, Claude ^a,b   Kovacevic, Natasa ^a   McIntosh, Anthony R ^a,b  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Eyes; Face; Gaze; Head orientation; Social attention

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FEMALE; GAZE; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LUMINANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 35248858771     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.07.094     Document Type: Article

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