Visual noise effects on emotion perception: Brain potentials and stimulus identification

NeuroReport

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 167-171

  Schupp, Harald T ^a   Stockburger, Jessica ^a   Schmälzle, Ralf ^a   Bublatzky, Florian ^a   Weike, Almut I ^b   Hamm, Alfons O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Early posterior negativity; Emotion; Event related potential; Perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EARLY POSTERIOR NEGATIVITY; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTIFACTS; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 38049126107     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3282f4aa42     Document Type: Article

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