Does it make a difference if I have an eye contact with you or with your picture? An ERP study

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 486-494

  Pönkänen, Laura M ^a   Alhoniemi, Annemari ^a   Leppänen, Jukka M ^a   Hietanen, Jari K ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Face perception; Gaze direction; Social cognition; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; EYE; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AROUSAL; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EYE; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79961227878     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsq068     Document Type: Article

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