Combined effects of attention and inversion on event-related potentials to human bodies and faces

Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 138-146

  Mohamed, Tarik N ^a,b   Neumann, Markus F ^a   Schweinberger, Stefan R ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b SOHAG UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Attention; Body; Event related potential (ERP); Face; N170

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84859402879     PISSN: 17588928     EISSN: 17588936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17588928.2011.597848     Document Type: Article

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