Looking for a face in the crowd: Fixation-related potentials in an eye-movement visual search task

NeuroImage

Volumn 89, Issue , 2014, Pages 297-305

  Kaunitz, Lisandro N ^a   Kamienkowski, Juan E ^b,c   Varatharajah, Alexander ^a   Sigman, Mariano ^b   Quiroga, Rodrigo Quian ^a   Ison, Matias J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES   (Chile)

Author keywords

EEG; Faces; Natural scenes; Oddball; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROSCIENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; LATENT PERIOD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EEG; FACES; NATURAL SCENES; ODDBALL; VISUAL SEARCH;

ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SACCADES; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892986899     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.12.006     Document Type: Article

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