Understanding individual face discrimination by means of fast periodic visual stimulation

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 232, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1599-1621

  Rossion, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

EEG; Face perception; Individual face discrimination; Inversion; Oddball; Periodic visual stimulation; SSVEP

Indexed keywords

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FACE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STEADY STATE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 84902545036     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-014-3934-9     Document Type: Review

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