Visual object categorization in the brain: What can we really learn from ERP peaks?

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue DECEMBER, 2011, Pages

  Rousselet, Guillaume A ^a   Pernet, Cyril R ^b   Caldara, Roberto ^c   Schyns, Philippe G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; LUMINANCE; OBJECT RELATION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 84933672820     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00156     Document Type: Article

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