Happy and fearful emotion in cues and targets modulate event-related potential indices of gaze-directed attentional orienting

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 323-333

  Fichtenholtz, Harlan M ^a,b   Hopfinger, Joseph B ^c   Graham, Reiko ^d   Detwiler, Jacqueline M ^e   Labar, Kevin S ^e  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^d TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evoked potentials; Facial affect; Positive psychology; Shared attention; Social neuroscience

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACILITATION; FEAR; FEMALE; GAZE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; CUES; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 36549059270     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsm026     Document Type: Article

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