The time course of implicit processing of facial features: An event-related potential study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1154-1161

  Pesciarelli, F ^a   Sarlo, M ^b   Leo, I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Face processing; Masked priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE PROFILE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPLICIT PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954426627     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.02.003     Document Type: Article

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