Effects of subliminal emotional facial expressions on language comprehension as revealed by event-related brain potentials.

Sci Rep · 2025 · PMC12218133 · PMID 40596140

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Particularly, a smaller N170 was found in response to angry faces compared to happy (negative cluster: p = 0.007) and neutral faces (negative cluster: p = 0.026), while the difference between happy and neutral faces did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.091).

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