Are we sensitive to valence differences in emotionally negative stimuli? Electrophysiological evidence from an ERP study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2764-2771

  Yuan, Jiajin ^a,b   Zhang, Qinglin ^a,b   Chen, Antao ^a,b   Li, Hong ^a,b   Wang, Quanhong ^a,b   Zhuang, Zhongchunxiao ^a,b   Jia, Shiwei ^a,b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Emotionally negative stimuli; Event related potential; Negativity bias; Sensitivity; Valence differences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 34547398561     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.04.018     Document Type: Article

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