Discrimination of fearful and happy body postures in 8-month-old infants: An event-related potential study

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JULY, 2014, Pages

  Missana, Manuela ^a   Rajhans, Purva ^a   Atkinson, Anthony P ^b   Grossmann, Tobias ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body expressions; Development; Emotion; Erp; Infants

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CHILD CARE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPH ELECTRODE; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEAR; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HAPPINESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 84905001782     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00531     Document Type: Article

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