Neural Response to Emotional Pictures Is Unaffected by Concurrent Task Difficulty: An Event-Related Potential Study

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1156-1162

  Hajcak, Greg ^a   Dunning, Jonathan P ^a   Foti, Dan ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

emotion; emotion regulation; event related potential; International Affective Picture System; late positive potential

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EMOTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATE POSITIVE POTENTIAL; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 38149018542     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.121.6.1156     Document Type: Article

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