Valuating other people's emotional face expression: a combined functional magnetic resonance imaging and electroencephalography study

Neuroscience

Volumn 152, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 713-722

  Seitz, R J ^a,b,c   Schafer R ^a   Scherfeld, D ^a   Friederichs, S ^a   Popp, K ^a   Wittsack, H J ^a   Azari, N P ^d   Franz, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Brain Imaging Center West   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

Author keywords

brain imaging; electroencephalography; empathy; face perception; medial frontal cortex; social behavior

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONALITY; EMPATHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 40949112278     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2007.10.066     Document Type: Article

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