Rapid discrimination of visual scene content in the human brain

Brain Research

Volumn 1093, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 167-177

  Anokhin, Andrey P ^a   Golosheykin, Simon ^a   Sirevaag, Erik ^a   Kristjansson, Sean ^a   Rohrbaugh, John W ^a   Heath, Andrew C ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Content selectivity; Emotion; ERP; Pictures; Visual processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33745669456     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.03.108     Document Type: Article

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