Social and emotional relevance in face processing: Happy faces of future interaction partners enhance the LPP

Human face perception is modulated by both emotional valence and social relevance, but their interaction has rarely been examined. Event-related brain potentials (ERP) to happy, neutral, and angry facial expressions with different degrees of social relevance were recorded. Social relevance was manip...

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Main Authors: Florian eBublatzky, Antje B M Gerdes, Andrew J White, Martin eRiemer, Georg W Alpers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00493/full