Emotion unfolded by motion: A role for parietal lobe in decoding dynamic facial expressions

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 950-957

  Sarkheil, Pegah ^a   Goebe, Rainer ^a,b   Schneider, Frank ^a,c   Mathiak, Klaus ^a,c,d  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c JARA TRANSLATIONAL BRAIN MEDICINE   (Germany)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic facial expressions; Emotion perception; Emotion cognition interaction; Inferior parietal lobule

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; DYNAMIC FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; EMOTION; EMOTION PERCEPTION; EMOTION-COGNITION INTERACTION; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

DYNAMIC FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; EMOTION PERCEPTION; EMOTION-COGNITION INTERACTION; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION; PARIETAL LOBE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84888262634     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss092     Document Type: Article

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