Accessory stimulus effects on response selection: Does arousal speed decision making?

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 321-329

  Hackley, Steven A ^a   Valle Inclán, Fernando ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; DECISION MAKING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LATENT PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AROUSAL; BLINKING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; DECISION MAKING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0033018520     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892999563427     Document Type: Article

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