Social and emotional relevance in face processing: Happy faces of future interaction partners enhance the late positive potential

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JULY, 2014, Pages

  Bublatzky, Florian ^a   Gerdes, Antje B M ^a   White, Andrew J ^a   Riemer, Martin ^a   Alpers, Georg W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anticipation; Emotion; ERP; Face processing; Social interaction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY POSTERIOR NEGATIVITY; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATE POSITIVE POTENTIAL; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; SOCIAL ANTICIPATION TASK; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL RELEVANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84904385107     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00493     Document Type: Article

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