Faces and emotions: Brain electric field sources during covert emotional processing

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 323-332

  Pizzagalli, Diego ^a   Koenig, Thomas ^b   Regard, Marianne ^a   Lehmann, Dietrich ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Brain mapping; Evoked potentials; Facial expression; Laterality; Personality; Source localization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; TIME;

EID: 0032053041     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(97)00117-6     Document Type: Article

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