ERP evidence for an early emotional bias towards happy faces in trait anxiety

Biological Psychology

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 183-192

  Morel, Shasha ^a   George, Nathalie ^b,c,d,e,f   Foucher, Aurélie ^b,c,d,e   Chammat, Mariam ^b,c,d,e   Dubal, Stéphanie ^b,c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DU CERVEAU ET DE LA MOELLE ÉPINIÈRE   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e INSERM   (France)

^f ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attention; Emotion; Event related potentials; Face; P1

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY POSTERIOR NEGATIVITY; EMOTIONAL BIAS; EMOTIONAL FACILITATION; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACILITATION; FEARFUL FACE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAPPY FACE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; N170 COMPONENT; NEUROMODULATION; NEUTRAL FACE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; P1 COMPONENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; REACTION TIME; RELIABILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAIT ANXIETY; TREND STUDY; VISUAL STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; HAPPINESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL BIAS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899644490     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: 18736246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2014.03.011     Document Type: Article

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