Happiness takes you right: The effect of emotional stimuli on line bisection

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 325-344

  Cattaneo, Zaira ^a,b   Lega, Carlotta ^a   Boehringer, Jana ^c   Gallucci, Marcello ^a   Girelli, Luisa ^a   Carbon, Claus Christian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b C MONDINO NATIONAL NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bisection; Cross modal; Emotional valence; Haptics; Hemispheric asymmetry

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL STIMULUS; EMOTIONALITY; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890972554     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2013.824871     Document Type: Article

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