Alteration of expected hemispheric asymmetries: Valence and arousal effects in neuropsychological models of emotion

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 213-220

  Alfano, Keith M ^a   Cimino, Cynthia R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arousal; Asymmetry; Emotion; Neuropsychology; Tachistoscopic; Valence; Verbal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOOD; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; VERBALIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; CUES; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REFERENCE VALUES; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 39749118257     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2007.08.002     Document Type: Article

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