Behavioral and electrophysiological correlates of intact and scrambled body perception

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 686-696

  Soria Bauser, Denise A ^a   Suchan, Boris ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body perception; Face perception; Inversion effect; N170

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY IMAGE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FACE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BEHAVIOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875082690     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2012.09.030     Document Type: Article

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