The timing of individual face recognition in the brain

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1451-1461

  Zheng, Xin ^a   Mondloch, Catherine J ^a   Segalowitz, Sidney J ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electroencephalography; ERPs; Face perception; Face space; N170; N250; P2

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE RECOGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; RECOGNITION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861223446     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.02.030     Document Type: Article

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