Decoding of affective facial expressions in the context of emotional situations

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2615-2621

  Sommer, Monika ^a   Döhnel, Katrin ^a   Meinhardt, Jörg ^b   Hajak, Göran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Emotion decoding; Precursor functions; Theory of Mind

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MOOD; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; THEORY; THEORY OF MIND;

ADULT; AFFECT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 47249166492     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.04.020     Document Type: Article

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