Category specificity in early perception: Face and word N170 responses differ in both lateralization and habituation properties

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue DEC, 2008, Pages

  Maurer, Urs ^a,b   Rossion, Bruno ^c   McCandliss, Bruce D ^a,d  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Electroencephalography; Event related potentials; Face processing; Habituation; Lateralization; N170; Word processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953536458     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.09.018.2008     Document Type: Article

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