The effect of visual sexual content on the event-related potential

Biological Psychology

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 200-208

  van Lankveld, Jacques J D M ^a   Smulders, Fren T Y ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arousal; Event related potential; P300; Positive slow wave; Sexual stimuli; Valence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; EMOTION; EROTISM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HETEROSEXUAL MALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL FUNCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AROUSAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 49749134443     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2008.04.016     Document Type: Article

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