Dynamics of trimming the content of face representations for categorization in the brain

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Van Rijsbergen, Nicola J ^a   Schyns, Philippe G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); SIGNAL ENCODING;

CLASSIFICATION IMAGES; ENCODINGS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIALS; FACE REPRESENTATIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; HUMAN BRAIN; LATE STAGE; TIME WINDOWS; VISUAL CATEGORIZATION; VISUAL COGNITION;

TRIMMING;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; FACE; FACE PROFILE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; SPATIAL MEMORY; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL MEMORY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VISION;

BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 73449142494     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000561     Document Type: Article

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