Differential early processing for faces and characters: N170 inversion and mirror effects

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Yangen Zhou
Xianmin Liu
Ya Zheng
Xiaochen Tang
Pengcheng Zhang
Jiamei Lu
Cite this article:  Zhou, Y., Liu, X., Zheng, Y., Tang, X., Zhang, P., & Lu, J. (2014). Differential early processing for faces and characters: N170 inversion and mirror effects. Social Behavior and Personality: An international journal, 42(2), 341-352.


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In the current study we compared the inversion and mirror effects on the N170 component, an event-related potential related to the neural processing of faces, in Chinese characters and faces. Faces displayed an obvious inversion effect on N170 latency and amplitude, whereas characters only showed a slight inversion effect on N170 latency. Moreover, both faces and characters were tolerant to mirror reversal for the N170 component despite a robust behavioral mirror cost for characters. These data indicate dissociation between processing faces and characters during the early perceptual stage.

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