Category-sensitivity in the N170 range: A question of topography and inversion, not one of amplitude

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2082-2089

  Boehm, Stephan G ^a   Dering, Benjamin ^a   Thierry, Guillaume ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; ERP; Face processing; Inversion effect; N170; Vertex positivity

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTOMOBILES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79956134200     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.03.039     Document Type: Article

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