Neural correlates of top-down processing in emotion perception: An ERP study of emotional faces in white noise versus noise-alone stimuli

Brain Research

Volumn 1337, Issue , 2010, Pages 56-63

  Lee, Kyu Yong ^a   Lee, Tae Ho ^a   Yoon, So Jeong ^a   Cho, Yang Seok ^a   Choi, June Seek ^a   Kim, Hyun Taek ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Early posterior negativity; Emotion; Event related potential; Late posterior potential; Perception; Top down process

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRESS; VISUAL STIMULATION; WHITE NOISE;

ADULT; BRAIN; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77952673465     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.03.094     Document Type: Article

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