Emotion-specific modulation of early visual perception

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1478-1485

  Nicol, Jeffrey R ^a   Perrotta, Steven ^a   Caliciuri, Sabina ^a   Wachowiak, Mark P ^a  

^a NIPISSING UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disgust; Emotional facial expressions; Fear; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; DISGUST; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

AMYGDALA; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84888011584     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2013.793654     Document Type: Article

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