Face-evoked steady-state visual potentials: Effects of presentation rate and face inversion

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue NOVEMBER 2012, 2012, Pages

  Forest Gruss, L ^a   Wieser, Matthias J ^b   Schweinberger, Stefan ^c   Keil, Andreas ^a  

^a Department of Psychology University of Florida Center for the Study of Emotion and Attention ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electroencephalography (EEG); Face inversion effect; Face processing; Frequency dependency; N170; Steady state visually evoked potentials (ssVEP)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; STEADY STATE; STEADY STATE EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84933673985     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00316     Document Type: Article

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