Time course of competition for visual processing resources between emotional pictures and foreground task

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1892-1899

  Müller, Matthias M ^a   Andersen, Søren K ^a   Keil, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Biased competition; Emotion; Human EEG

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEADY STATE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 47649097525     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhm215     Document Type: Article

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