1 Spatial scale contribution to early visual differences between face and object processing Valérie Goffaux, 1,2 , Isabel Gauthier 3 and Bruno Rossion 1,4 1 Unité de Neurosciences Cognitives (NESC), UCL, Belgium; 2 Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie (NEFY), UCL, Belgium ; 3 Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University ; 4 Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University Number of pages : 30 Theme : Neural basis of behavior; Topic : Cognition Valérie Goffaux Unité de Neurosciences Cognitives (NESC), UCL Place Cardinal Mercier, 10 1348 Louvain La Neuve Belgium Tel. : 0032 10 47 87 67 Fax : 0032 10 47 37 74 valerie.goffaux@psp.ucl.ac.be Key words Face processing, specificity, N170, configuration, spatial scales Note: this is not the final version, but close to it Contact Valerie for final version