Facial affect processing in social anxiety: Tasks and stimuli

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 193, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-6

  Machado de Sousa, João Paulo ^a   Arrais, Kátia C ^a   Alves, Nelson T ^b   Chagas, Marcos H N ^a   de Meneses Gaya, Carolina ^a   Crippa, José Alexandre de S ^a   Hallak, Jaime Eduardo C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Emotion; Face; Social anxiety; Social phobia

Indexed keywords

EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; REVIEW; SOCIAL PHOBIA; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 77957667333     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2010.08.013     Document Type: Review

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