Identification of emotion in a dichotic listening task: Event-related brain potential and behavioral findings

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 286-307

  Erhan, Hulya ^a,c   Borod, Joan C ^b   Tenke, Craig E ^a   Bruder, Gerard E ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dichotic listening; Emotion; Event related potentials; Hemispheric specialization; P300; Perception; Prosody; Slow wave; Valence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONSONANT; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOWEL;

EID: 0031872908     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brcg.1998.0984     Document Type: Article

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