Neural activation during the processing of ambiguous fearful facial expressions: An ERP study in anxious and nonanxious individuals

Biological Psychology

Volumn 88, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 188-195

  Frenkel, Tahl I ^a   Bar Haim, Yair ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attention bias; ERP; Face processing; Threat processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATE POSITIVE POTENTIAL; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 80053099023     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: 18736246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

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