Neural correlates of the stare-in-the-crowd effect

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1053-1060

  Doi, Hirokazu ^a   Ueda, Kazuhiro ^b   Shinohara, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

ERP; Late positive component; N2pc; Straight gaze; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60549083279     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.11.004     Document Type: Article

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