Event-Related Potentials Indicate Different Processes to Mediate Categorical and Associative Priming in Person Recognition

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1246-1263

  Wiese, Holger ^a   Schweinberger, Stefan R ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

event related potentials; face recognition; name recognition; priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; NOMENCLATURE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CUES; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NAMES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55049128680     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0012937     Document Type: Article

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