The skin conductance orienting response to semantic stimuli: Significance can be independent of arousal

Psychophysiology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 111-118

  Dindo, Lilian ^a   Fowles, Don C ^a  

^a E11 SSH   (United States)

Author keywords

Arousal; Semantic; Signal stimuli; Significance; Skin conductance

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 36849010148     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2007.00604.x     Document Type: Article

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