Take it to the bridge: An interhemispheric processing advantage for emotional faces

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 66-72

  Compton, Rebecca J ^a   Feigenson, Keith ^a   Widick, Page ^a  

^a HAVERFORD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Face perception; Interhemispheric communication

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISUAL FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 19544387614     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2004.12.002     Document Type: Article

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