Affective responses to emotional words are boosted in communicative situations

NeuroImage

Volumn 109, Issue , 2015, Pages 273-282

  Rohr, Lana ^a   Abdel Rahman, Rasha ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory emotion; Communication; Emotional words; ERPs; Social situations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; SOCIAL ASPECT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEORECORDING; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOLUNTEER; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN CORTEX; EVOKED RESPONSE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMMUNICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84921847531     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.01.031     Document Type: Article

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