Deconstructing the early visual electrocortical responses to face and house stimuli

Journal of Vision

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Desjardins, James A ^a   Segalowitz, Sidney J ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Faces; Independent component analysis; N170; P100; Robust estimation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FACE; HOUSING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; HOUSING; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84878375131     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/13.5.22     Document Type: Article

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