Brain activation during upright and inverted encoding of own- and other-age faces: ERP evidence for an own-age bias

Developmental Science

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 588-598

  Melinder, Annika ^a   Gredebäck, Gustaf ^a   Westerlund, Alissa ^b   Nelson, Charles A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; VISION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77955543414     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00910.x     Document Type: Article

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