Electrophysiological correlates of rapid spatial orienting towards fearful faces

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 619-633

  Pourtois, Gilles ^a,b   Grandjean, Didier ^a   Sander, David ^a   Vuilleumier, Patrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b University Medical Centre   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Emotion; Face perception; Fear; Human electrophysiology; Source localization; Spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FACE PROFILE; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; STATISTICS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 2442712784     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhh023     Document Type: Article

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