Emotional voice and emotional body postures influence each other independently of visual awareness

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Stienen, Bernard M C ^a   Tanaka, Akihiro ^b   de Gelder, Beatrice ^a,c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AWARENESS; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOCALIZATION; VOICE; EMOTION; FEAR; HAPPINESS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY; VISION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AWARENESS; EMOTIONS; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POSTURE; UNCERTAINTY; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053907541     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025517     Document Type: Article

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