There's more to emotion than meets the eye: A processing bias for neutral content in the domain of emotional prosody

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1133-1152

  Cornew, Lauren ^a   Carver, Leslie ^a   Love, Tracy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory emotion processing; Emotion; Emotion bias; Emotional prosody

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY ANALYSIS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 77957734291     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930903247492     Document Type: Article

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