The monkey pulvinar neurons differentially respond to emotional expressions of human faces

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 215, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 129-135

  Maior, Rafael S ^a,b   Hori, Etsuro ^a   Tomaz, Carlos ^b   Ono, Taketoshi ^a   Nishijo, Hisao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Emotion recognition; Facial expression; Monkey; Pulvinar; Single unit recording

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HAPPINESS; LATENT PERIOD; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULVINAR; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MACACA; NEURONS; PULVINAR; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77955844691     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.07.009     Document Type: Article

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