On the automaticity of emotion processing in words and faces: Event-related brain potentials evidence from a superficial task

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 23-32

  Rellecke, Julian ^a   Palazova, Marina ^a   Sommer, Werner ^a   Schacht, Annekathrin ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Automaticity; Emotional facial expressions; Event related brain potentials; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY POSTERIOR NEGATIVITY; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AWARENESS; COMPREHENSION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051703913     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2011.07.001     Document Type: Article

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