Influence of aesthetic perception on visual event-related potentials

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 933-945

  de Tommaso, Marina ^a   Pecoraro, Carla ^a   Sardaro, Michele ^a   Serpino, Claudia ^a   Lancioni, Giulio ^a   Livrea, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aesthetic assessment; Target stimuli; Visual ERP

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; AROUSAL; ART; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRODE; ESTHETICS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; SCALP; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ADULT; BEAUTY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ESTHETICS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 47149099396     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2007.09.003     Document Type: Article

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