Emotion effects on the N170: A question of reference?

Brain Topography

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 62-71

  Rellecke, Julian ^a   Sommer, Werner ^a   Schacht, Annekathrin ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Early posterior negativity; Emotional facial expressions; Event related brain potentials; N170

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE FIXATION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; SCALP;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872343325     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: 15736792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10548-012-0261-y     Document Type: Article

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