The varying time courses of attentional and affective modulation of the startle eyeblink reflex

Psychophysiology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 691-697

  Vanman, Eric J ^a   Boehmelt, Andreas H ^b   Dawson, Michael E ^a   Schell, Anne M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Attention; Emotion; Prepulse inhibition; Startle eyeblink reflex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ATTENTION; EMOTION; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; STARTLE REFLEX;

EID: 0029963432     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1996.tb02365.x     Document Type: Review

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