From Body Perception to Action Preparation: A Distributed Neural System for Viewing Bodily Expressions of Emotion

People Watching: Social, Perceptual, and Neurophysiological Studies of Body Perception

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  de Gelder, Beatrice ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Action perception; Action understanding; Adaptation; Affective science; Attention; Automaticity; Body perception; Consciousness; Emotion perception; Evolution; Face perception; Threat perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921258797     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195393705.003.0020     Document Type: Chapter

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