Facilitation of face recognition through the retino-tectal pathway

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2043-2049

  Nakano, Tamami ^a   Higashida, Noriko ^a   Kitazawa, Shigeru ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Emotion; Face; S cone; Saccade; Subcortical; Superior colliculus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MALE; RATING SCALE; RESPONSE TIME; RETINOGENICULATE PATHWAY; RETINOTECTAL PROJECTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EMOTION; FACE; S CONE; SACCADE; SUBCORTICAL; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RETINA; SACCADES; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881112554     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.06.018     Document Type: Article

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