Chapter 4 Dynamics of emotional effects on spatial attention in the human visual cortex

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 156, Issue , 2006, Pages 67-91

  Pourtois, Gilles ^a,b   Vuilleumier, Patrik ^a,b  

^a University Hospital   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; DYNAMICS; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MECHANICAL PROBE; MODULATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMODULATION; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL LOBE; THREAT; TIME; VISION TEST; VISUAL CORTEX; DEPTH PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 33749257866     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(06)56004-2     Document Type: Review

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