Objective To solve the controversy whether the P1 reflects the different perception mechanisms between human face and non-face object and to provide more evidences for it. Methods The subjects classified the face or car images with the same low-level visual stimuli at two different phase-coherent, during which the event-related potentials and behavior data were recorded to explore the differences of perception and decision for face and car stimuli. Results The event-related potential results suggested that different stimulus types but not different stimulus phase-coherent elicited different P1 amplitudes. Conclusions Both the behavior results and the event-related potential results suggest that P1 reflects the different perception mechanisms between human face and non-face object.
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