Does gaze direction of fearful faces facilitate the processing of threat? An ERP study of spatial precuing effects.
Eye gaze is very important for attentional orienting in social life. By adopting the event-related potential (ERP) technique, we explored whether attentional orienting of eye gaze is modulated by emotional congruency between facial expressions and the targets in a spatial cuing task. Faces with diff...
| Publicado en: | Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience Vol. 21; no. 4; pp. 837 - 852 |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
Aug2021
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