First valence, then arousal: The temporal dynamics of brain electric activity evoked by emotional stimuli

Brain Topography

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 143-156

  Gianotti, Lorena R R ^a   Faber, Pascal L ^a   Schuler, Matthias ^a,b   Pascual Marqui, Roberto D ^a   Kochi, Kieko ^a   Lehmann, Dietrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arousal; Emotional processing; ERP; Microstate analysis; Temporal dynamics; Valence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AROUSAL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 39149122169     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10548-007-0041-2     Document Type: Article

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