Is the N170 peak of visual event-related brain potentials car-selective?

NeuroReport

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 902-906

  Dering, Benjamin ^a   Martin, Clara D ^a,b   Thierry, Guillaume ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Face processing; N170; P1

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CAR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; EPISODIC MEMORY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651091453     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e328327201d     Document Type: Article

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