Event-related brain responses to emotional words, pictures, and faces - a cross-domain comparison

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Bayer, Mareike ^a   Schacht, Annekathrin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

domain specificity; Emotion; Event related brain potentials (ERPs); Facial expressions of emotions; Language; Negativity bias; Pictures; Positivity bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907691729     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01106     Document Type: Article

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