Early visual ERP sensitivity to the species and animacy of faces

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 2876-2881

  Balas, Benjamin ^a   Koldewyn, Kami ^b  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Face perception; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL COGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS; FACE PERCEPTION; SOCIAL COGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; DOGS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84886258478     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.09.014     Document Type: Article

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