Holistic face processing of own- and other-age faces in young and older adults: ERP evidence from the composite face task

NeuroImage

Volumn 74, Issue , 2013, Pages 306-317

  Wiese, Holger ^a   Kachel, Ulrike ^a   Schweinberger, Stefan R ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Faces; Holistic processing; N170; N250r; Own age bias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FEMALE; HOLISTIC PROCESSING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875610375     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.02.051     Document Type: Article

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