Why some faces won't be remembered: Brain potentials illuminate successful versus unsuccessful encoding for same-race and other-race faces

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MARCH, 2011, Pages

  Lucas, Heather D ^a   Chiao, Joan Y ^a   Paller, Ken A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

EEG; ERPs; Expertise; Facial memory; Other race effect; Recognition; Social categorization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; OTHER RACE EFFECT; RACE DIFFERENCE; RECOGNITION; THEORY;

EID: 84933672693     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00020     Document Type: Article

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