Combined effects of inversion and feature removal on N170 responses elicited by faces and car fronts

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 321-328

  Kloth, Nadine ^a,b   Itier, Roxane J ^c   Schweinberger, Stefan R ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cars; Eyes; Faces; Inversion; N170; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE; FACE; FACE INVERSION EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; N170; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT;

ADULT; AUTOMOBILES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EYE; FACE; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874575553     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2013.01.002     Document Type: Article

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