Processing emotional facial expressions: The role of anxiety and awareness

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 52-63

  Fox, Elaine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONSCIOUSNESS; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SELF REPORT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMOTION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; REACTION TIME; REINFORCEMENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EXPRESSED EMOTION; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0036490932     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/CABN.2.1.52     Document Type: Article

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