Anaerobic digestion is a valuable process to use livestock effluents produce green energy and by-product called digestate with fertilising value. This work aimed at evaluating the value of solid fraction (SF) as an organic amendment source nitrogen crops replacing mineral N. A field experiment was done two consecutive vegetable crops. The treatments were: control without fertilisation; Ni85 fer...

Faces and written words are two of the most familiar types of visual patterns with the brain's selective response of N170 component in early perception. Using ERP adaptation paradigms, studies have found the N170 response is reduced when there is repeated presentation of upright faces relative to a control condition. In contrast to these well-established features of the face-related N170 adapta...

This set of three experiments assessed the influence of different psychophysical factors on the lateralization of the N170 event-related potential (ERP) component to words and faces. In all experiments, words elicited a left-lateralized N170, whereas faces elicited a right-lateralized or nonlateralized N170 depending on presentation conditions. Experiment 1 showed that lateralization for words ...

The N170 is an event-related potential component reported to be very sensitive to human face stimuli. This study investigated the specificity of the N170, as well as its sensitivity to inversion and task status when subjects had to categorize either human or animal faces in the context of upright and inverted natural scenes. A conspicuous N170 was recorded for both face categories. Pictures of ...

Emotional facial expressions provide important non-verbal cues as to the imminent behavioural intentions of a second party. Hence, within emotion science the processing of faces (emotional or otherwise) has been at the forefront of research. Notably, however, such research has led to a number of debates including the ecological validity of utilising schematic faces in emotion research, and the ...

Previous event-related potentials research has suggested that the N170 component has a larger amplitude to faces and words than to other stimuli, but it remains unclear whether it indexes the same cognitive processes for faces and for words. The present study investigated how category-level repetition effects on the N170 differ across stimulus categories. Faces, cars, words, and non-words were ...

BACKGROUND States of depression are associated with increased sensitivity to negative events. For this novel study, we have assessed the relationship between the number of depressive episodes and the dysfunctional processing of emotional facial expressions. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We used a visual emotional oddball paradigm to manipulate the processing of emotional information while ev...

N170 event-related potential (ERP) responses to both faces and visual words raises questions about category specific processing mechanisms during early perception and their neural basis. Topographic differences across word and face N170s suggests a form of category specific processing in early perception - the word N170 is consistently left-lateralized, while less consistent evidence supports a...

Rapid and implicit letter-to-sound conversion is a remarkable ability that develops during school years, which reflected in the left lateralization of print-tuned N170 event-related potential. Previous studies have shown elementary children learning alphabetic scripts elicit bilateral N170, reflects their underdeveloped phonological processing. However, Japanese hiragana, has better letter–soun...

incapability in face perception and recognition is one of the main issues in autism spectrum disorders (asd). event related potential (erp) studies have revealed controversial insights on autistic brain responses to faces and objects. the current investigation examined the erp components of young children with asd compared to a typically developing (td) group when looking at the upright and inv...