Face and object encoding under perceptual load: ERP evidence

NeuroImage

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 3021-3027

  Neumann, Markus F ^a   Mohamed, Tarik N ^a,b   Schweinberger, Stefan R ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b SOHAG UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Attention; ERP; N170; N250r; Perceptual Load Theory; Repetition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650931644     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.10.075     Document Type: Article

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