Unattended facial expressions asymmetrically bias the concurrent processing of nonemotional information

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1386-1395

  Maxwell, Jeffrey S ^a   Shackman, Alexander J ^a   Davidson, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 24744469439     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0898929054985437     Document Type: Article

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