Facial EMG responses to emotional expressions are related to emotion perception ability

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Künecke, Janina ^a   Hildebrandt, Andrea ^a   Recio, Guillermo ^a,b   Sommer, Werner ^a   Wilhelm, Oliver ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRUGATOR SUPERCILII MUSCLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EMOTION; FACE MUSCLE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONELINESS; MALE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIAL MUSCLES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900321502     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084053     Document Type: Article

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