Semantic learning modifies perceptual face processing

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1127-1134

  Heisz, Jennifer J ^a   Shedden, Judith M ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE PROFILE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTIC MEMORY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66049139536     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21104     Document Type: Article

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