Unconscious processing of facial affect in children and adolescents

Social Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 28-47

  Killgore, William D S ^a   Yurgelun Todd, Deborah A ^a  

^a MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CINGULATE GYRUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LONELINESS; MALE; MASKING; NEUROIMAGING; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; BRAIN; CHILD; CONSCIOUSNESS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34248390139     PISSN: 17470919     EISSN: 17470927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470910701214186     Document Type: Article

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