Enhanced subliminal emotional responses to dynamic facial expressions

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Sato, Wataru ^a   Kubota, Yasutaka ^a   Toichi, Motomi ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Affective priming; Dynamic presentations; Emotional facial expressions; Subliminal stimulation; Unconscious emotion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906334218     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00994     Document Type: Article

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