Effects of face view discrimination learning on N170 latency and amplitude

Vision Research

Volumn 61, Issue , 2012, Pages 125-131

  Su, Junzhu ^a   Chen, Cheng ^b   He, Dongjun ^a   Fang, Fang ^a,b  

^a Peking University   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

EEG; Face; N170; Perceptual learning; Psychophysics

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTUAL LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TRAINING;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FACE; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860849497     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.08.024     Document Type: Article

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