Telling one face from another: Electrocortical correlates of facial characteristics among individual female faces

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3254-3264

  Zheng, Xin ^a   Mondloch, Catherine J ^a   Nishimura, Mayu ^b   Vida, Mark D ^c   Segalowitz, Sidney J ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electroencephalography; ERPs; Face perception; Facial characteristics; N170

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE COLOR; EYE SHAPE; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RECOGNITION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053594007     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.07.030     Document Type: Article

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