A robust and representative lower bound on object processing speed in humans

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 1804-1814

  Bieniek, Magdalena M ^a   Bennett, Patrick J ^b   Sekuler, Allison B ^b   Rousselet, Guillaume A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

ageing; face processing; object processing; processing speed; visual evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL PROCESSING SPEED; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

EID: 84978634476     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.13100     Document Type: Article

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