Exogenous attention to facial vs non-facial emotional visual stimuli

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 764-773

  Carretié, Luis ^a   Kessel, Dominique ^a   CarboniAlejandra, ^b   López Martín, Sara ^a   Albert, Jacobo ^c   Tapia, Manuel ^a   Mercado, Francisco ^d   Capilla, Almudena ^a   Hinojosa, José A ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^c INSTITUTO PLURIDISCIPLINAR   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Emotion; Erps; Exogenous attention; Fusiform gyrus; Precentral gyrus

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; ERPS; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXOGENOUS ATTENTION; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EMOTION; ERPS; EXOGENOUS ATTENTION; FUSIFORM GYRUS; PRECENTRAL GYRUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880937815     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss068     Document Type: Article

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