Why bodies? Twelve reasons for including bodily expressions in affective neuroscience

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1535, 2009, Pages 3475-3484

  De Gelder, Beatrice ^a,b,c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOACOUSTICS; BRAIN; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; VIOLENCE;

EID: 73549119752     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0190     Document Type: Review

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