Electrophysiological insights into processing nonverbal emotional vocalizations

NeuroReport

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 108-112

  Liu, Taosheng ^a,b   Pinheiro, Ana P ^b,d   Deng, Guanghui ^a   Nestor, Paul G ^b,c   McCarley, Robert W ^b   Niznikiewicz, Margaret A ^b  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

auditory; emotion; event related potentials; N100; P200

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL VOCALIZATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCALIZATION; VOICE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84855351120     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: 1473558X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32834ea757     Document Type: Article

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