The neural correlates of memory encoding and recognition for own-race and other-race faces

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3103-3115

  Herzmann, Grit ^a   Willenbockel, Verena ^b   Tanaka, James W ^c   Curran, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN NEUROPSYCHOLOGIE ET COGNITION   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

ERP; Face processing; Memory encoding; Other race; Own race; Recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RACE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POPULATION GROUPS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051802619     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.07.019     Document Type: Article

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