The cortical processing of facial emotional expression is associated with social cognition skills and executive functioning: A preliminary study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 505, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 41-46

  Petroni, Agustin ^b,c   Canales Johnson, Andrés ^d   Urquina, Hugo ^a   Guex, Raphael ^e   Hurtado, Esteban ^d,f   Blenkmann, Alejandro ^c,g   Von Ellenrieder, Nicolás ^g   Manes, Facundo ^a   Sigman, Mariano ^b,c   Ibañez, Agustin ^a,b,d  

^a FAVALORO UNIVERSITY   (Argentina)

^b Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES   (Chile)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^f PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^g UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Dual valence task; Emotion; Executive functioning; Face processing; IGT; Individual differences; N170; Neuropsychology; Social cognition; ToM

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL COGNITION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 82455162416     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.09.062     Document Type: Article

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