Effect of emotional context in auditory-cortex processing

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 261-271

  Alexandrov, Yuri I ^a   Klucharev, Vasily ^b,c,d   Sams, Mikko ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Decision making; Emotion; Learning; N100

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; SENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REWARD;

EID: 34548031159     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2007.05.004     Document Type: Article

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