Facing Good and Evil: Early Brain Signatures of Affective Biographical Knowledge in Face Recognition

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1397-1405

  Abdel Rahman, Rasha ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotion; Face recognition; Familiarity; Knowledge

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NEUROMODULATION; SCALP; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TOPOGRAPHY; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMPATHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83755172595     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024717     Document Type: Article

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