Recognition advantage of happy faces: Tracing the neurocognitive processes

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2051-2061

  Calvo, Manuel G ^a   Beltrán, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Emotion; ERP; Facial expression; Recognition; Time course

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY;

EMOTION; ERP; FACIAL EXPRESSION; RECOGNITION; TIME COURSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84882749978     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.07.010     Document Type: Article

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