The N170 shows differential repetition effects for faces, objects, and orthographic stimuli

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JANUARY, 2011, Pages 1-10

  Mercure, Evelyne ^a,b   Kadosh, Kathrin Cohen ^a,b   Johnson, Mark H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Event related potentials; Face processing; Habituation; Objects; Words

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORTHOGRAPHY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WAVEFORM;

EID: 80855164311     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00006     Document Type: Article

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