Event-related alpha suppression in response to facial motion

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Girges, Christine ^a   Wright, Michael J ^a   Spencer, Janine V ^a   O'Brien, Justin M D ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETO-OCCIPITAL SULCUS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION;

EID: 84897810794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089382     Document Type: Article

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