Neural systems of visual attention responding to emotional gestures

NeuroImage

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1339-1346

  Flaisch, Tobias ^a   Schupp, Harald T ^a   Renner, Britta ^a   Junghöfer, Markus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GESTURE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; AFFECT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 62049085868     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.12.073     Document Type: Article

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