Neural responses in the occipital cortex to unrecognizable faces

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 708-718

  Mitsudo, Takako ^a   Kamio, Yoko ^b   Goto, Yoshinobu ^a,c   Nakashima, Taisuke ^a   Tobimatsu, Shozo ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^c INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Early face sensitivity; ERP; Face inversion effect; Masked face presentation; N1; P1

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952313323     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2010.10.004     Document Type: Article

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