The effect of emotional and attentional processes on blink startle modulation and on electrodermal responses

Psychophysiology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 340-347

  Lipp, Ottmar V ^a   Siddle, David A T ^a   Dall, Patricia J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotion; Orienting; Pavlovian conditioning; Skin conductance; Startle

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; EMOTION; EYELID REFLEX; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BLINKING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MALE; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 0030911307     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1997.tb02404.x     Document Type: Article

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