Face perception in the mind's eye

Brain Topography

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 9-18

  Righart, Ruthger ^a,b   Burra, Nicolas ^a   Vuilleumier, Patrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Faces; LPC; Memory; N170; Top down modulation; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EYE; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951724486     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10548-010-0164-8     Document Type: Article

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