Culture modulates the brain response to human expressions of emotion: Electrophysiological evidence

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 67, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-13

  Liu, Pan ^a   Rigoulot, Simon ^a   Pell, Marc D ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cross cultural studies; Emotional prosody; ERP; Facial expression; Stroop

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTION; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FACIAL STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; NORTH AMERICAN; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STROOP TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOCAL STIMULATION; VOICE; BRAIN; CHINA; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN; CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84949115620     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.11.034     Document Type: Article

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