Temporal-nasal asymmetry of rapid orienting to face-like stimuli

NeuroReport

Volumn 20, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 1309-1312

  Tomalski, Przemyslaw ^a   Johnson, Mark H ^a   Csibra, Gergely ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extrageniculate pathways; Eye movements; Face detection; Superior colliculus; Temporal nasal asymmetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FACE; FEMALE; GENICULATE BODY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NOSE CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STIMULUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL NASAL ASYMMETRY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349681073     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32832f0acd     Document Type: Article

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