The influence of language on perception: listening to sentences about faces affects the perception of faces

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 45, 2010, Pages 15254-15261

  Landau, Ayelet N ^a   Aziz Zadeh, Lisa ^b   Ivry, Richard B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENDER; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RELIABILITY; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 78149487138     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2046-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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