The role of the right hemisphere in the physiological and cognitive components of emotional processing

Psychophysiology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 112-122

  Spence, Sarah ^a,b   Shapiro, David ^a   Zaidel, Eran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Heart rate; Hemispheric specialization; Laterality; Psychophysiology; Pulse volume

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; VASOCONSTRICTION;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 0029983438     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1996.tb02115.x     Document Type: Article

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