Fearful faces grab attention in the absence of late affective cortical responses

Psychophysiology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 60-69

  Ikeda, Koki ^a   Sugiura, Ayaka ^a   Hasegawa, Toshikazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attentional capture; Emotion; Face recognition; LPP; N170; N2pc

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871274377     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2012.01478.x     Document Type: Article

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