Rapid influence of emotional scenes on encoding of facial expressions: An ERP study

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 270-278

  Righart, Ruthger ^a   de Gelder, Beatrice ^a,b,c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Donders Laboratory for Cognitive and Affective Neurosciences   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Context; Emotion; Event related potentials; Face perception; N170; P1

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AROUSAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 52249099647     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsn021     Document Type: Article

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