Neural correlates of intrusion of emotion words in a modified Stroop task

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 23-34

  van Hooff, Johanna C ^a   Dietz, Kristina C ^a   Sharma, Dinkar ^a   Bowman, Howard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attentional bias; Emotion intrusion; Emotional Stroop; Event related potentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; READING; REFERENCE VALUES; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 38149135153     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2007.09.002     Document Type: Article

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