Attentional load affects automatic emotional processing: Evidence from event-related potentials

NeuroReport

Volumn 17, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 1797-1801

  Doallo, Sonia ^a,b   Holguín, Socorro Rodríguez ^a   Cadaveira, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b Campus Universitario Sur   (Spain)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotion; Event related potentials; International Affective Pictures System; Load; P200

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 33845622529     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000246325.51191.39     Document Type: Article

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