Modulation of ongoing cognitive processes by emotionally intense words

Psychophysiology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 188-196

  Carretié, Luis ^a   Hinojosa, José A ^b   Albert, Jacobo ^a   López Martín, Sara ^a   De La Gándara, Belén S ^a   Igoa, José M ^a   Sotillo, María ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO PLURIDISCIPLINAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Affective lexical decision (ALD) task; Attentional capture; Compliments; Insults; LPC; Parietal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING;

EID: 38849142610     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2007.00617.x     Document Type: Article

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