Do emotional stimuli interfere with response inhibition? Evidence from the stop signal paradigm

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 391-403

  Verbruggen, Frederick ^a   De Houwer, Jan ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

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Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; COGNITION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RESPONSE TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 34250792962     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930600625081     Document Type: Article

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