The effects of eye and face inversion on the early stages of gaze direction perception-An ERP study

Brain Research

Volumn 1183, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 83-90

  Doi, Hirokazu ^a   Sawada, Reiko ^b   Masataka, Nobuo ^b  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Configural processing; Gaze direction perception; Inversion; N170; P100

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE; FACE; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; EYE; FACE; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 36048997292     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.08.073     Document Type: Article

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