The effects of pictures of emotional faces on tonic and phasic autonomic cardiac control in women and men

Biological Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 157-173

  Jönsson, Peter ^a   Sonnby Borgström, Marianne ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Descriptors; Emotion; Facial; Heart period variability; Parasympathetic; Respiratory sinus arrhythmia; Subliminal

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR AUTOREGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HEART; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART CYCLE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINUS RHYTHM; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANGER; ATTENTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; EMOTIONS; FACE; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0037311668     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-0511(02)00114-X     Document Type: Article

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