Emotional abilities and cortical activation during emotional information processing

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 685-695

  Freudenthaler, H Harald ^a   Fink, Andreas ^a   Neubauer, Aljoscha C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

EEG; Emotion perception; Emotional intelligence; ERD; Neural efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745850757     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.02.016     Document Type: Article

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