Electrophysiological evidence for sequential discrimination of positive and negative facial expressions

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 119, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1803-1811

  Nakashima, T ^a,e   Goto, Y ^a,c   Abe, T ^b   Kaneko, K ^b   Saito, T ^a   Makinouchi, A ^d   Tobimatsu, S ^a  

^a Graduate School of Medical Sciences   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

^d KURUME INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; High and low spatial frequencies; Parallel visual channels; Positive and negative facial expressions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMOTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 46049113861     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2008.04.014     Document Type: Article

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