On the malleability of emotional encoding

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1019-1036

  Mathews, Andrew ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Control; Emotional encoding; Interpretation; Modification

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; COGNITION; CONTROL; DEPRESSION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EMOTION; EXPERIMENT; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGERY; MOOD; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROMODULATION; REVIEW; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS; STRESS; THREAT; TRAINING;

EID: 4344581344     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2004.04.003     Document Type: Article

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