Enhanced perceptual responses during visual processing of facial stimuli in young socially anxious individuals

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 526, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 68-73

  Rossignol, Mandy ^a   Campanella, Salvatore ^b   Maurage, Pierre ^a   Heeren, Alexandre ^a   Falbo, Luciana ^b   Philippot, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b BRUGMANN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Emotion; ERP; Faces; N170; Oddball; P1; P3b; Social anxiety

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANGER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL PHOBIA; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANXIETY; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84865661673     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.07.045     Document Type: Article

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