Right N170 modulation in a face discrimination task: An account for categorical perception of familiar faces

Behavioral studies have shown that two different morphed faces belonging to the same identity are harder to discriminate than two faces stemming from two different identities. The temporal course of this categorical perception effect has been explored through event-related potentials. Three kinds of...

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Published in:	Psychophysiology Vol. 37; no. 6; pp. 796 - 806
Main Authors:	CAMPANELLA, S., HANOTEAU, C., DÉPY, D., ROSSION, B., BRUYER, R., CROMMELINCK, M., GUÉRIT, J.M.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, UK Cambridge University Press 01.11.2000 Blackwell Publishing Blackwell
Subjects:	Adult Behavioral psychophysiology Biological and medical sciences Brain Mapping Contingent Negative Variation - physiology Discrimination Learning - physiology Dominance, Cerebral - physiology Electroencephalography Electrophysiology Event-related potentials Face perceptual categorization Facial Expression Female Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Humans Male N170 Occipital Lobe - physiology P300 Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology Perceptual Distortion - physiology Priming Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychology. Psychophysiology Task complexity Temporal Lobe - physiology N170 Event-related potentials Priming Task complexity Face perceptual categorization P300 Human Temporal lobe Hemispheric specialization Priming effect Central nervous system Electrophysiology Cognition Occipital lobe Vision Perception Face Laterality Categorization Stimulus discrimination Event evoked potential Brain (vertebrata)
ISSN:	0048-5772, 1469-8986, 1540-5958
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