The influence of language on perception: listening to sentences about faces affects the perception of faces

We examined the effect of linguistic comprehension on early perceptual encoding in a series of electrophysiological and behavioral studies on humans. Using the fact that pictures of faces elicit a robust and reliable evoked response that peaks at ∼170 ms after stimulus onset (N170), we measured the...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Journal of neuroscience 2010-11, Vol.30 (45), p.15254-15261
Hauptverfasser:	Landau, Ayelet N, Aziz-Zadeh, Lisa, Ivry, Richard B
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult Analysis of Variance Cerebral Cortex - physiology Electroencephalography Face Female Humans Language Male Photic Stimulation Speech Perception - physiology Visual Perception - physiology
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