Differential lateralization for words and faces: Category or psychophysics?

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2070-2087

  Mercure, Evelyne ^a   Dick, Frederic ^a   Halit, Hanife ^a   Kaufman, Jordy ^a,b   Johnson, Mark H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RESPONSE TIME; VISUAL STIMULATION; WAVEFORM;

EID: 55949129752     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.20137     Document Type: Article

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