Exploring Emotional and Cognitive Conflict Using Speeded Voluntary Facial Expressions

Emotion

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 842-854

  Chiew, Kimberly S ^a   Braver, Todd S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Conflict; Electromyography; Emotion; Facial expressions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; COGNITION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; STROOP TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650681143     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019704     Document Type: Article

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