The N170, not the P1, indexes the earliest time for categorical perception of faces, regardless of interstimulus variance

NeuroImage

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1563-1574

  Ganis, Giorgio ^a,b,c   Smith, Daniel ^a,d   Schendan, Haline E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Face perception; Interstimulus variance; N170; Object perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863503970     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.05.043     Document Type: Article

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