Do neural correlates of face expertise vary with task demands? event-related potential correlates of own- And other-race face inversion

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Wiese, Holger ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Event relatedpotentials; Faces; Inversio; N170; Own racebias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; N170; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84891650615     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00898     Document Type: Article

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