Emotional face comprehension : neuropsychological perspectives

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Emotional face comprehension : neuropsychological perspectives

Michela Balconi, editor

(Nova biomedical)

Nova Science, c2008

  • : hardcover

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This book explores the state of the art of cognitive and neuropsychological studies applied to the topic of decoding of facial expression of emotions. It is a collective volume that encloses the main theoretical and empirical results of the field. Each chapter illustrates the recent research data on emotional face studies and in some cases includes specific research reports.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • A theoretical overview on communicative, cognitive and neuropsychological correlates of facial expression recognition
  • Neuropsychology and psychophysiology of emotional face comprehension. Empirical evidences
  • Behavioural elements during face processing: Eye and head movement activity and their connection to physiological arousal
  • Unconscious comprehension of face. Theoretical and methodological issues
  • Attentional bias towards threatening emotional face expressions
  • Cross-modal integration of emotion by face and voice
  • Physiology and cognition in psychological emotion-related disturbs
  • Emotional facial expression and psychopathology: Insights from event-related potentials
  • Facial emotion recognition impairment in autism
  • Understanding emotions and mental states from faces and pictures in Rett syndrome
  • Index.

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