The on-line processing of socio-emotional information in prototypical scenarios: Inferences from brain potentials

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 457-466

  Leuthold, Hartmut ^a   Filik, Ruth ^b   Murphy, Kirsty ^c   Mackenzie, Ian G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dipole source modeling; Emotion inference; Event related brain potentials; Social cognition; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; ONLINE SYSTEMS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053383871     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsr029     Document Type: Article

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