Featural and configural face processing differentially modulate ERP components

Brain Research

Volumn 1239, Issue , 2008, Pages 162-170

  Mercure, Evelyne ^a   Dick, Frederic ^a   Johnson, Mark H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Event related potential; Face processing; Feature; Processing strategy; Second order configuration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 53949120007     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.07.098     Document Type: Article

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