When faces signal danger: Event-related potentials to emotional facial expressions in animal phobics

Neuropsychobiology

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 235-244

  Sarlo, Michela ^a   Munafò, Marianna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attentional bias; Event related potentials; Facial expressions; Specific phobia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAZARD; HUMAN; MALE; PHOBIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNAKE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; PHOBIC DISORDERS; REACTION TIME; SNAKES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955539561     PISSN: 0302282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000319950     Document Type: Article

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