The facilitated processing of threatening faces: An ERP analysis

Emotion

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 189-200

  Schupp, Harald T ^a,b   Junghöfer, Markus ^b   Öhman, Arne ^c   Weike, Almut I ^a   Stockburger, Jessica ^a   Hamm, Alfons O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PERCEPTION; SENSOR; STIMULUS; THREAT;

ADULT; AFFECT; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 2942627716     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.4.2.189     Document Type: Article

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