Mind perception: Real but not artificial faces sustain neural activity beyond the N170/VPP

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Wheatley, Thalia ^a   Weinberg, Anna ^b   Looser, Christine ^a   Moran, Tim ^b   Hajcak, Greg ^b  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE PROFILE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PREDICTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY OF MIND; VERTEX POSITIVE POTENTIAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; ADOLESCENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FACE; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953300974     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017960     Document Type: Article

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