Processing of low spatial frequency faces at periphery in choice reaching tasks

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2136-2141

  Awasthi, Bhuvanesh ^a   Friedman, Jason ^a   Williams, Mark A ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Face processing; Reach trajectories; Spatial frequencies; Subcortical pathway

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FACE; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; RETINOTECTAL PROJECTION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SUBCORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCH; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79956119184     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.03.003     Document Type: Article

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