Enhancement of activity of the primary visual cortex during processing of emotional stimuli as measured with event-related functional near-infrared spectroscopy and event-related potentials

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 28-35

  Herrmann, Martin J ^a,b   Huter, Theresa ^a   Plichta, Michael M ^a   Ehlis, Ann Christine ^a   Alpers, Georg W ^a   Mühlberger, Andreas ^a   Fallgatter, Andreas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Genomic Imaging and Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotion; EPN; NIRS; Optical topography

Indexed keywords

DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN; OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 37849047439     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20368     Document Type: Article

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