Hemispheric facilitation as a result of threatening and nonthreatening words: Blocked vs mixed presentation effects and order effects

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 617-621

  Van Strien, Jan W ^a   Luipen, Marijn W ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; Cerebral dominance; Dual task; Emotional content; Laterality; Visual field

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RECOGNITION; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TACHISTOSCOPY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032905918     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(98)00112-2     Document Type: Article

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