Hemispheric asymmetry in the recognition of emotional attitude conveyed by facial expression, prosody and propositional speech

Cortex

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 65-81

  Schmitt, Jörg J ^a,d   Hartje, Wolfgang ^b   Willmes, Klaus ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RECOGNITION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPEECH; VIDEOTAPE;

EID: 0030974019     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(97)80005-6     Document Type: Article

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