Emotional modulation of visual remapping of touch

Emotion

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 980-987

  Cardini, Flavia ^a,b   Bertini, Caterina ^a,b   Serino, Andrea ^a,b   Ladavas, Elisabetta ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Emotion recognition; Facial emotional expression; Fear; Visual remapping of touch; VRT effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; RECOGNITION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOUCH; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84874468356     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0027351     Document Type: Article

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