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Behavioral and Brain Functions BioMed Central Research Open Access The face-specific N170 component is modulated by emotional facial expression 1,2 1 1 1 Vera C Blau , Urs Maurer , Nim Tottenham and Bruce D McCandliss* Address: 1Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, USA and 2Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands Email: Vera C Blau - v.blau@psychology.unimaas.nl; Urs Maurer - urm2001@; Nim Tottenham - nlt2002@; Bruce D McCandliss* - bdm2001@ * Corresponding author Published: 23 January 2007 Received: 26 September 2005 Accepted: 23 January 2007 Behavioral and Brain Functions 2007, 3:7 doi:10.1186/1744-9081-3-7 This article is available from: /content/3/1/7 © 2007 Blau et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: According to the traditional two-stage model of face processing, the face-specific N170 event-related potential (ERP) is linked to structural encoding of face stimuli, whereas later ERP components are thought to reflect processing of facial affect. This view has recently been