The real-time link between person perception and action: Brain potential evidence for dynamic continuity

Social Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 139-155

  Freeman, Jonathan B ^a   Ambady, Nalini ^a   Midgley, Katherine J ^a   Holcomb, Phillip J ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Action; ERPs; Face perception; Motor processes; Person perception; Social categorization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BRAIN; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79952514284     PISSN: 17470919     EISSN: 17470927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2010.490674     Document Type: Article

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