Early face processing specificity: It's in the eyes!

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1815-1826

  Itier, Roxane J ^a   Alain, Claude ^a,b   Sedore, Katherine ^a   McIntosh, Anthony R ^a,b  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NERVE CELL; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUBICULUM; VISION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; EYE; FACE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 35748986415     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2007.19.11.1815     Document Type: Article

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