Emotional context enhances auditory novelty processing: Behavioural and electrophysiological evidence

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1199-1206

  Domínguez Borràs, Judith ^a   Garcia Garcia, Manuel ^a   Escera, Carles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotion; ERP; Novelty P3

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 51649089934     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06411.x     Document Type: Article

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