Target processing is facilitated by motivationally relevant cues

Biological Psychology

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 29-42

  Briggs, Kate E ^a   Martin, Frances H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotion; ERP; Motivation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; COLLEGE STUDENT; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL AROUSAL; THREAT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MOTIVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 41149106757     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2007.12.007     Document Type: Article

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