Chapter 2 Emotion and attention: event-related brain potential studies

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 156, Issue , 2006, Pages 31-51

  Schupp, Harald T ^a   Flaisch, Tobias ^a   Stockburger, Jessica ^a   Junghöfer, Markus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

attention; EEG; emotion; EPN; ERP; LPP

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; LEARNING; MOTIVATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; UNPLEASANT SENSATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY; BRAIN; EVOKED RESPONSE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ATTENTION; BRAIN; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS;

EID: 33749044591     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(06)56002-9     Document Type: Review

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