From upright to upside-down presentation: A spatio-temporal ERP study of the parametric effect of rotation on face and house processing

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages 100-

  Jemel, Boutheina ^a,b,c   Coutya, Julie ^a,d   Langer, Caroline ^a,d   Roy, Sylvain ^a,c  

^a Hopital Riviere des Prairies   (Canada)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE FERNAND SEGUIN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; ROTATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; ROTATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 70349786786     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-10-100     Document Type: Article

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