Brain potential correlates of face recognition: Geometric distortions and the N250r brain response to stimulus repetitions

Psychophysiology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 535-544

  Bindemann, Markus ^a   Burton, A Mike ^a   Leuthold, Hartmut ^a   Schweinberger, Stefan R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

ERPs; Face recognition; Geometric distortions; N250r; Priming; Repetition; Stretched faces

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIES; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 45149092940     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2008.00663.x     Document Type: Article

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