Tracing the time course of emotion perception: The impact of stimulus physics and semantics on gesture processing

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 820-827

  Flaisch, Tobias ^a   Schupp, Harald T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotion; ERP; Gestures; Non verbal communication

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; ERP; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTICS; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ATTENTION; EMOTION; ERP; GESTURES; NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTION; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885721404     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss073     Document Type: Article

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