Behavioral assessment of emotion discrimination, emotion regulation, and cognitive control in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue MAR, 2011, Pages

  Tottenham, Nim ^a,b   Hare, Todd A ^c   Casey, B J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Emotion regulation; Faces; Go nogo

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052606472     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00039     Document Type: Article

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