Not so harmless anymore: How context impacts the perception and electrocortical processing of neutral faces

NeuroImage

Volumn 92, Issue , 2014, Pages 74-82

  Wieser, Matthias J ^a   Gerdes, Antje B M ^b   Büngel, Inga ^a   Schwarz, Katharina A ^c   Mühlberger, Andreas ^a,d   Pauli, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Context; ERPs; Face processing; Top down

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION; AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; HEARING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; SELF EVALUATION; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AFFECT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; CUES; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SELF-ASSESSMENT; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84895747094     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.01.022     Document Type: Article

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