Modeling single-trial ERP reveals modulation of bottom-up face visual processing by top-down task constraints (in some subjects)

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue JUN, 2011, Pages

  Rousselet, Guillaume A ^a   Gaspar, Carl M ^a   Wieczorek, Kacper P ^a   Pernet, Cyril R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; ERP; Faces; GLM; Individual differences; N170; Noise; Single trial analyses

Indexed keywords

EID: 82955244372     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00137     Document Type: Article

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