Gender Differences in Implicit and Explicit Processing of Emotional Facial Expressions as Revealed by Event-Related Theta Synchronization

Emotion

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 678-687

  Knyazev, Gennady G ^a   Slobodskoj Plusnin, Jaroslav Y ^a   Bocharov, Andrey V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

EEG; Emotion; Gender differences; Theta oscillations; Unconscious processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AWARENESS; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78249268242     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019175     Document Type: Article

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