Comment: The appraising brain: Towards a neuro-cognitive model of appraisal processes in emotion

Emotion Review

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 163-168

  Brosch, Tobias ^a   Sander, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

affective neuroscience; appraisal; emotion; neuro cognitive mechanisms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875908174     PISSN: 17540739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1754073912468298     Document Type: Review

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