Face processing is gated by visual spatial attention

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue MAR, 2008, Pages

  Crist, Roy E ^a,b   Wu, Chien Te ^a   Karp, Chris ^a   Woldorff, Marty G ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ERPs; Event related potentials; FFA; N170; STS; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649446514     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.09.010.2007     Document Type: Article

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