Faces forming traces: Neurophysiological correlates of learning naturally distinctive and caricatured faces

NeuroImage

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 491-500

  Schulz, Claudia ^a   Kaufmann, Jürgen M ^a   Kurt, Alexander ^a   Schweinberger, Stefan R ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Caricatures; Distinctiveness; Event related potentials; Face learning; N250

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ART; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE LEARNING; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATE POSITIVE COMPONENT; LEARNING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864418088     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.06.080     Document Type: Article

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