Effects of color information on face processing using event-related potentials and gamma oscillations

Neuroscience

Volumn 176, Issue , 2011, Pages 265-273

  Minami, T ^a   Goto, K ^a   Kitazaki, M ^a   Nakauchi, S ^a  

^a TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electroencephalogram; Face color; Face processing; Gamma oscillations; N170

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FACE COLOR; FEMALE; GAMMA OSCILLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79851508751     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.12.026     Document Type: Article

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