Attention to faces modulates early face processing during low but not high face discriminability

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 837-846

  Sreenivasan, Kartik K ^a   Goldstein, Jonathan M ^a   Lustig, Audrey G ^a   Rivas, Luis R ^a   Jha, Amishi P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650137119     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.4.837     Document Type: Article

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