Early sensitivity for eyes within faces: A new neuronal account of holistic and featural processing

NeuroImage

Volumn 97, Issue , 2014, Pages 81-94

  Nemrodov, Dan ^a   Anderson, Thomas ^a   Preston, Frank F ^a   Itier, Roxane J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Eye tracking; Eyes; Faces; Holistic; Inversion; N170

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE DOMINANCE; EYE FIXATION; EYE TRACKING; FACE; FACE PROCESSING; FACIES; FEMALE; FOREHEAD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOUTH; NASION; NORMAL HUMAN; NOSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; EYE; EYE MOVEMENT; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EYE; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACE; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901373425     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.04.042     Document Type: Article

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