The emotional homunculus: ERP evidence for independent somatosensory responses during facial emotional processing

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3263-3267

  Sel, Alejandra ^a,b   Forster, Bettina ^a   Calvo Merino, Beatriz ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Embodiment; Face perception; Simulation; Somatosensory cortex; Somatosensory evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EMBODIMENT; FACE PERCEPTION; SIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY-EVOKED POTENTIALS;

ADULT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84894501710     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0106-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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