Is the early modulation of brain activity by fearful facial expressions primarily mediated by coarse low spatial frequency information?

Journal of Vision

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Vlamings, Petra H J M ^a   Goffaux, Valerie ^a   Kemner, Chantal ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Evoked potentials; Face recognition; Magnocellular parvocellular; Visual cognition; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY;

BRAIN; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65649111563     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/9.5.12     Document Type: Article

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