Emotion and the processing of symbolic gestures: An event-related brain potential study

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 109-118

  Flaisch, Tobias ^a   Häcker, Frank ^a   Renner, Britta ^a   Schupp, Harald T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affect; Attention; EEG; Emotion; ERP; Gestures

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SELF REPORT; SYMBOLISM;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SELF REPORT; SYMBOLISM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78751681690     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsq022     Document Type: Article

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