Brain potentials in affective picture processing: Covariation with autonomic arousal and affective report

Biological Psychology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 95-111

  Cuthbert, Bruce N ^a   Schupp, Harald T ^a   Bradley, Margaret M ^a   Birbaumer, Niels ^a   Lang, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arousal; Attention; Emotion; Event related potentials; Slow potentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0033997477     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-0511(99)00044-7     Document Type: Article

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