Interhemispheric difference for upright and inverted face perception in humans: An event-related potential study

Brain Topography

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 31-39

  Honda, Yukiko ^a,b   Watanabe, Shoko ^a   Nakamura, Maiko ^a,c   Miki, Kensaku ^a   Kakigi, Ryusuke ^a,b,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Event related potential (ERP); Face; Face inversion; Hemifield; Interhemispheric difference; N170

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; LATENT PERIOD; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STANDING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FACE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISION;

ADULT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 35348837262     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10548-007-0028-z     Document Type: Article

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