Differential electrocortical responses to increasing intensities of fearful and happy emotional expressions

Brain Research

Volumn 1166, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 103-109

  Leppänen, Jukka M ^a   Kauppinen, Pasi ^a   Peltola, Mikko J ^a   Hietanen, Jari K ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Emotion intensity; Event related potential; Facial expression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34547939111     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.06.060     Document Type: Article

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