The role of face shape and pigmentation in other-race face perception: An electrophysiological study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 498-506

  Balas, Benjamin ^a   Nelson, Charles A ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Face recognition; Other Race Effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CAUCASIAN; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEGRO; NERVE POTENTIAL; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PIGMENTATION; RACE DIFFERENCE; RECOGNITION; SKIN COLOR; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72449132291     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.10.007     Document Type: Article

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