Fearful faces impact in peripheral vision: Behavioral and neural evidence

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2013-2021

  Rigoulot, Simon ^a,b   D'Hondt, Fabien ^a,b   Defoort Dhellemmes, Sabine ^a,b   Despretz, Pascal ^a,b   Honoré, Jacques ^a,b   Sequeira, Henrique ^a,b  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Emotion; ERP; Fear; N170; PCA; Peripheral vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL VISION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL FIELD;

EID: 79956144694     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.03.031     Document Type: Article

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