Turn to me: Electrophysiological correlates of frontal vs. averted view face and body processing are associated with trait empathy

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue OCTOBER 2012, 2012, Pages 1-26

  Bauser, Denise Soria ^a   Thoma, Patrizia ^a   Suchan, Boris ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affective empathy; Cognitive empathy; Emotional expression; N170; P100

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMPATHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GESTURE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RELATION; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECOGNITION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84869762663     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2012.00106     Document Type: Article

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