Facing a real person: An event-related potential study

NeuroReport

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 497-501

  Pönkänen, Laura M ^a   Hietanen, Jari K ^a   Peltola, Mikko J ^a   Kauppinen, Pasi K ^a   Haapalainen, Antti ^a   Leppänen, Jukka M ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Face processing; Motivation; Social communication

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; DISPLAY SYSTEM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONAL APPEARANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS;

ADULT; AFFECT; COGNITION; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 39749107278     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3282f7c4d3     Document Type: Article

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