An event-related brain potential study of explicit face recognition

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2736-2745

  Gosling, Angela ^a   Eimer, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Event related brain potentials; Face perception; Face processing; Face recognition; Visual cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE RECOGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; RECOGNITION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960167055     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.05.025     Document Type: Article

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