Visual evoked potentials, heart rate responses and memory to emotional pictorial stimuli

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 55-67

  Palomba, Daniela ^a   Angrilli, Alessandro ^a   Mini, Alessio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Emotion; Heart rate; Memory; Visual evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECELERATION; EMOTION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; RECALL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0030915651     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8760(97)00751-4     Document Type: Article

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