Event-related potentials during an emotional Stroop task

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 221-231

  Thomas, Susan J ^a   Johnstone, Stuart J ^a   Gonsalvez, Craig J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attention; Attentional bias; Emotion; Emotional Stroop; Event related potential; N1; N2; P2; P3; Threat words

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STROOP TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; READING; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 33847113981     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2006.10.002     Document Type: Article

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