Neural adaptation provides evidence for categorical differences in processing of faces and Chinese characters: An ERP study of the N170

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Fu, Shimin ^a   Feng, Chunliang ^b   Guo, Shichun ^a   Luo, Yuejia ^b   Parasuraman, Raja ^c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION BY ORIENTATION; ADAPTATION BY RATE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CHINESE CHARACTER; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEURAL ADAPTATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHINA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864248200     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041103     Document Type: Article

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