Association of trait emotional intelligence and individual fMRI-activation patterns during the perception of social signals from voice and face

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 979-991

  Kreifelts, Benjamin ^a   Ethofer, Thomas ^a,b   Huberle, Elisabeth ^c   Grodd, Wolfgang ^b   Wildgruber, Dirk ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crossmodal integration; Facial expression; Prosody; Social cognition; STS

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOICE; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE; VASCULARIZATION; VISION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOICE;

EID: 77953832602     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20913     Document Type: Article

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