Individual differences in cardiac vagal tone are associated with differential neural responses to facial expressions at different spatial frequencies: An ERP and sLORETA study

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 777-793

  Park, Gewnhi ^a,d   Moon, Eunok ^a   Kim, Do Won ^a,b   Lee, Seung Hwan ^a,c  

^a Clinical Emotion and Cognition Research Laboratory   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University Wonju   (South Korea)

^c Inje University   (South Korea)

^d AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac vagal tone; ERPs; Spatial frequency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VAGUS NERVE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VAGUS NERVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870925554     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13415-012-0111-0     Document Type: Article

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