Emotional facial expressions reduce neural adaptation to face identity

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 610-614

  Gerlicher, Anna M V ^a   Van Loon, Anouk M ^a,b   Scholte, H Steven ^a,b   Lamme, Victor A F ^a,b   Van der Leij, Andries R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Cognitive Neuroscience Group University of Amsterdam ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptation; EEG; Emotion; Face; Fear; Perception

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL EVOKED POTENTIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899977666     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nst022     Document Type: Article

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