Seeing race: N170 responses to race and their relation to automatic racial attitudes and controlled processing

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3153-3161

  Ofan, Renana H ^a   Rubin, Nava ^a   Amodio, David M ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEGRO; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RACIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84860388980     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00014     Document Type: Article

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