Foveal and parafoveal spatial attention and its impact on the processing of facial expression: An ERP study

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 513-526

  Wijers, Albertus A ^a   Banis, Stella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

(Para)foveal location; ERP; Face perception; Fearful and neutral faces; N1; P1; Spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE FIXATION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA IMAGE; SPATIAL ATTENTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 84856215655     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2011.07.040     Document Type: Article

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