Heritability of the neural response to emotional pictures: Evidence from ERPs in an adult twin sample

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 424-434

  Weinberg, Anna ^a   Venables, Noah C ^b   Proudfit, Greg Hajcak ^a   Patrick, Christopher J ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Heritability; Neural response; Twin studies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; BRAIN MAPPING; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TWINS;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENETICS, BEHAVIORAL; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84924596161     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsu059     Document Type: Article

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