The costs of emotional attention: Affective processing inhibits subsequent lexico-semantic analysis

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1932-1949

  Ihssen, Niklas ^a   Heim, Sabine ^a   Keil, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

EID: 36849094505     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2007.19.12.1932     Document Type: Article

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