The face of fluency: Semantic coherence automatically elicits a specific pattern of facial muscle reactions

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 260-271

  Topolinski, Sascha ^a   Likowski, Katja U ^a   Weyers, Peter ^a   Strack, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FACE MUSCLE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 60749137435     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930801994112     Document Type: Article

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