Laterality effects in normal subjects' recognition of familiar faces, voices and names. Perceptual and representational components

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1151-1160

  Gainotti, Guido ^a,b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Channels of familiar people recognition; Cortical representation of familiar faces; Hemispheric asymmetries; Perceptual processing of faces and voices; Recognition of familiar and unfamiliar faces and voices; Voices and names

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; FACE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MOTOR SYSTEM; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION; REVIEW; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SENSORY SYSTEM; VOICE;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; NAMES; PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VOICE;

EID: 84877337882     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.03.009     Document Type: Review

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