Left hemisphere representations of emotional facial expressions

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 23-29

  Stone, Valerie E ^a   Nisenson, Laura ^a   Eliassen, James C ^a   Gazzaniga, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Facial expressions; Hemispheric differences; Left hemisphere; Right hemisphere

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPLIT BRAIN; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0030038919     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0028-3932(95)00060-7     Document Type: Article

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