Putting a name to a face: The role of name labels in the formation of face memories

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3280-3293

  Gordon, Iris ^a   Tanaka, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NAMES; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053548024     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00036     Document Type: Article

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