A study of N250 event-related brain potential during face and non-face detection tasks

Journal of Vision

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Nasr, Shahin ^a,b   Esteky, Hossein ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCES IPM   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Attention; Evoked potentials; Face recognition; Object recognition; Visual cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FACE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; REFERENCE VALUE;

BRAIN; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65549139653     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/9.5.5     Document Type: Article

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