N250r ERP repetition effects from distractor faces when attending to another face under load: Evidence for a face attention resource

Brain Research

Volumn 1270, Issue , 2009, Pages 64-77

  Neumann, Markus F ^a   Schweinberger, Stefan R ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; ERP; Face; N250r; N400; Repetition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349230580     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.03.018     Document Type: Article

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