Face-sensitive processes one hundred milliseconds after picture onset

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Dering, Benjamin ^a   Martin, Clara D ^b   Moro, Sancho ^c   Pegna, Alan J ^d   Thierry, Guillaume ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Event related brain potentials; Face processing; N170; P100; Visual object categorization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACIAL RECOGNITION; HUMAN; LUMINANCE; NONHUMAN;

EID: 82955210752     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00093     Document Type: Article

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