Seeing direct and averted gaze activates the approach-avoidance motivational brain systems

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2423-2430

  Hietanen, Jari K ^a   Leppänen, Jukka M ^a   Peltola, Mikko J ^a   Linna aho, Kati ^a   Ruuhiala, Heidi J ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Electroencephalography; Face; Frontal asymmetry; Skin conductance; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN;

ADULT; AROUSAL; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FRONTAL LOBE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 44449175454     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.02.029     Document Type: Article

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