Perceiving age and gender in unfamiliar faces: Brain potential evidence for implicit and explicit person categorization

Psychophysiology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 957-969

  Wiese, Holger ^a   Schweinberger, Stefan R ^a   Neumann, Markus F ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age categorization; Event related potentials; Gender categorization; Priming; Unfamiliar faces

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLASSIFICATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE ASYMMETRY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 54049083523     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2008.00707.x     Document Type: Article

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