Facial expression decoding as a function of emotional meaning status: ERP evidence

NeuroReport

Volumn 20, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 1603-1608

  Paulmann, Silke ^a,b   Pell, Marc D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Emotion; Event related potential; Facial expression; Grimace; N250; N400; P200

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; ENGLAND; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74349103933     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3283320e3f     Document Type: Article

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