MEG demonstrates a supra-additive response to facial and vocal emotion in the right superior temporal sulcus

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 47, 2009, Pages 20010-20015

  Hagan, Cindy C ^a   Woods, Will ^a   Johnson, Sam ^a   Calder, Andrew J ^b   Green, Gary G R ^a   Young, Andrew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audio visual emotion; Emotional faces; Emotional voices; Fear; Gamma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION; VOICE;

ADULT; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73949090642     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0905792106     Document Type: Article

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