Piecing it together: Infants' neural responses to face and object structure

Journal of Vision

Volumn 12, Issue 13, 2012, Pages

  Farzin, Faraz ^a   Hou, Chuan ^b   Norcia, Anthony M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITH KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Face processing; Image structure; Lateral occipital cortex; Object perception; Steady state evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84878179745     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/12.13.6     Document Type: Article

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