Does emotion modulate the blink reflex in human conditioning? Startle potentiation during pleasant and unpleasant cues in the picture-picture paradigm

Psychophysiology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 737-748

  Mallan, Kimberley M ^a   Lipp, Ottmar V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Affective learning; Conditioning; Emotion; Eyeblink startle

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARTLE REFLEX;

EID: 34547855861     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2007.00541.x     Document Type: Article

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