Early ERP components differentially extract facial features: Evidence for spatial frequency-and-contrast detectors

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 225-235

  Nakashima, Taisuke ^a,e   Kaneko, Kunihiko ^b   Goto, Yoshinobu ^a,c   Abe, Tomotaka ^b   Mitsudo, Takako ^a,e   Ogata, Katsuya ^a   Makinouchi, Akifumi ^d   Tobimatsu, Shozo ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

^d KURUME INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contrast; Equiluminance; N170; N2; P1; Spatial frequency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION TEST; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55649085025     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2008.08.009     Document Type: Article

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