Three stages of facial expression processing: ERP study with rapid serial visual presentation

NeuroImage

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1857-1867

  Luo, Wenbo ^a,b,c   Feng, Wenfeng ^b   He, Weiqi ^b   Wang, Nai Yi ^d   Luo, Yue Jia ^c  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Institute of Educational Psychology   (China)

Author keywords

Attentional blink; Faces; Three stages of facial expressions processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; EMOTIONS; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70749086126     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.09.018     Document Type: Article

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