Recognizing an individual face: 3D shape contributes earlier than 2D surface reflectance information

NeuroImage

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1809-1818

  Caharel, Stéphanie ^a   Jiang, Fang ^a   Blanz, Volker ^b   Rossion, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

2D surface reflectance; 3D shape; ERP Adaptation; Face recognition; N170

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 67651061176     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.05.065     Document Type: Article

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