ERP evidence for the speed of face categorization in the human brain: Disentangling the contribution of low-level visual cues from face perception

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1297-1311

  Rossion, Bruno ^a   Caharel, Stéphanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Amplitude spectrum; ERP; Face perception; Low and high vision; Low level visual cues; N170; Object processing; P1

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 80755144298     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.04.003     Document Type: Article

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