Why are you looking like that? How the context influences evaluation and processing of human faces

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 438-445

  Schwarz, Katharina A ^a,b   Wieser, Matthias J ^a   Gerdes, Antje B M ^a,c   Mühlberger, Andreas ^a   Pauli, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Context; Facial expression; Self reference; Social anxiety

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTION; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84870879307     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss013     Document Type: Article

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