A new look at cardiac defense: Attention or emotion?

Spanish Journal of Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 60-78

  Vila, Jaime ^a,b   Fernández, María Carmen ^a   Pegalajar, Joaquín ^a   Vera, María Nieves ^a   Robles, Humbelina ^a   Pérez, Nieves ^a   Sánchez, María B ^a   Ramírez, Isabel ^a   Ruiz Padial, Elisabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b Campus Universitario de la Cartuja   (Spain)

Author keywords

Attention; Defense reflex; Emotion; Heart rate; Startle reflex; Stress

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECELERATION; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EMOTION; HEALTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 0141799968     PISSN: 11387416     EISSN: 19882904     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1138741600005217     Document Type: Article

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