Consciousness and emotion: ERP modulation and attentive vs. pre-attentive elaboration of emotional facial expressions by backward masking

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 113-124

  Balconi, Michela ^a   Mazza, Guido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attention; Consciousness; Emotion; ERP measures; Facial expression

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349153795     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-009-9122-8     Document Type: Article

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