Attentional Blink to emotional and threatening pictures in spider phobics: Electrophysiology and behavior

Brain Research

Volumn 1148, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 149-160

  Trippe, Ralf H ^a   Hewig, Johannes ^a   Heydel, Claudia ^a   Hecht, Holger ^a   Miltner, Wolfgang H R ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attentional Blink; Consolidation bias; P300; Spider phobia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARACHNOPHOBIA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; PHOBIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BLINKING; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; SNAKES; SPIDERS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

ARANEAE;

EID: 34247248716     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.02.035     Document Type: Article

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