Why is the N170 enhanced for inverted faces? An ERP competition experiment

NeuroImage

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 782-789

  Sadeh, Boaz ^a   Yovel, Galit ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956061779     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.06.029     Document Type: Article

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