An objective index of individual face discrimination in the right occipito-temporal cortex by means of fast periodic oddball stimulation

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 57-72

  Liu Shuang, Joan ^a   Norcia, Anthony M ^b   Rossion, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

EEG; Face discrimination; Occipito temporal cortex; Periodic visual stimulation; Steady state visual evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE DISCRIMINATION; FAST PERIODIC ODDBALL STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EEG; FACE DISCRIMINATION; OCCIPITO-TEMPORAL CORTEX; PERIODIC VISUAL STIMULATION; STEADY-STATE VISUAL EVOKED POTENTIALS;

ADULT; BIOPHYSICS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84889609820     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.10.022     Document Type: Article

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