Anxiety and oscillatory responses to emotional facial expressions

Brain Research

Volumn 1227, Issue , 2008, Pages 174-188

  Knyazev, Gennady G ^a   Bocharov, Andrey V ^a   Levin, Evgenij A ^a   Savostyanov, Alexander N ^a   Slobodskoj Plusnin, Jaroslav Yu ^a  

^a SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY AND BASIC MEDICINE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Anxiety; EEG; Emotional facial expressions; Event related spectral perturbations; Implicit association test; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DELTA RHYTHM; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HIPPOCAMPUS THETA RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOOD CHANGE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGER; ANXIETY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); THETA RHYTHM; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 48949092058     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.06.108     Document Type: Article

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