Facial attractiveness modulates early and late event-related brain potentials

Biological Psychology

Volumn 76, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 100-108

  Werheid, Katja ^a   Schacht, Annekathrin ^a   Sommer, Werner ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beauty; Emotion; ERPs; Faces; Priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY POSTERIOR NEGATIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIES; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATE PARIETAL POSITIVITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; BEAUTY; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 34547943633     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2007.06.008     Document Type: Article

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