Reversal of the face-inversion effect in N170 under unconscious visual processing

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 400-409

  Suzuki, Megumi ^a   Noguchi, Yasuki ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Continuous flash suppression; Electroencephalography; Subliminal stimuli; Ventral visual pathway

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGO DEVELOPMENT; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FACE; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISIBILITY; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DOMINANCE, OCULAR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871867077     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.11.021     Document Type: Article

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