Differential early ERPs to fearful versus neutral facial expressions: A response to the salience of the eyes?

Biological Psychology

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 150-158

  Leppänen, Jukka M ^a   Hietanen, Jari K ^a   Koskinen, Krista ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Emotion; Event related potential; Face perception; Facial expression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VOLUNTEER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EYE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 42649120325     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2008.02.002     Document Type: Article

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