Implicit emotional processing in peripheral vision: Behavioral and neural evidence

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2887-2896

  Rigoulot, Simon ^a,c   D'Hondt, Fabien ^a   Honoré, Jacques ^a,b   Sequeira, Henrique ^a  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Emotion; Event related potentials; Facial expression; Implicit; Peripheral vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866271932     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.08.015     Document Type: Article

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