Emotional words: What's so different from just words?

Cortex

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 823-830

  Landis, Theodor ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Cerebral hemispheres; Emotion; Emotional words; Gender differences; Language; Lateralization; Lexical decision

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; APHASIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEX DIFFERENCE; VISUAL FIELD; WORD RECOGNITION; WRITING; AFFECT; BRAIN; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SPEECH;

AFFECT; APHASIA; BRAIN; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; SEX FACTORS; SPEECH;

EID: 34248658816     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70424-6     Document Type: Article

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