Visual awareness and the detection of fearful faces

Emotion

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 243-247

  Pessoa, Luiz ^a   Japee, Shruti ^b   Ungerleider, Leslie G ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SIGNAL DETECTION; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTION;

EID: 22244481545     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.5.2.243     Document Type: Article

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