Cortical sensitivity to contrast polarity and orientation of faces is modulated by temporal-nasal hemifield asymmetry

Brain Imaging and Behavior

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 88-101

  Tomalski, Przemyslaw ^a,b   Johnson, Mark H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contrast polarity; Event related potentials; Extrageniculate visual pathways; Face detection; Face inversion effect; N170; Temporal nasal asymmetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST POLARITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SENSITIVITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MONOCULAR VISION; NEUROMODULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUBCORTEX; TEMPORAL NASAL VISUAL FIELD ASYMMETRY; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863403922     PISSN: 19317557     EISSN: 19317565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11682-012-9147-6     Document Type: Article

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