Subliminal presentation of other faces (but not own face) primes behavioral and evoked cortical processing of empathy for pain

Brain Research

Volumn 1398, Issue , 2011, Pages 72-85

  Ibáñez, Agustín ^a,b,c   Hurtado, Esteban ^c,e   Lobos, Alejandro ^c   Escobar, Josefina ^c,e   Trujillo, Natalia ^d   Baez, Sandra ^a   Huepe, David ^c   Manes, Facundo ^a   Decety, Jean ^f  

^a FAVALORO UNIVERSITY   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^e PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Avoidance; Contextual effects, own face and other face processing; Empathy; Empathy for pain, N1, P3; Subliminal priming

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMPATHY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EMPATHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959234042     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 00068993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2011.05.014     Document Type: Article

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