Emotion perception is mediated by spatial frequency content

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1144-1151

  Kumar, Devpriya ^a   Srinivasan, Narayanan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

Author keywords

Emotion identification; Facial expressions; Hemispheric asymmetry; Spatial frequency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION;

AFFECT; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80053973803     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025453     Document Type: Article

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