Event related potentials to emotional adjectives during reading

Psychophysiology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 487-498

  Herbert, Cornelia ^a   Junghofer, Markus ^b   Kissler, Johanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Early posterior negativity; Emotion; Late positive potential; N400; Recognition potential; Word processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RECALL; RECOGNITION;

EID: 41849116017     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2007.00638.x     Document Type: Article

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