Neural signatures of conscious and unconscious emotional face processing in human infants

Cortex

Volumn 64, Issue , 2015, Pages 260-270

  Jessen, Sarah ^a   Grossmann, Tobias ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Consciousness; EEG; Emotion perception; Human infants; Subliminal processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; EGO DEVELOPMENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE PROCESSING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84918781040     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.11.007     Document Type: Article

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