The selective processing of emotional visual stimuli while detecting auditory targets: An ERP analysis

Brain Research

Volumn 1230, Issue , 2008, Pages 168-176

  Schupp, Harald T ^a   Stockburger, Jessica ^a   Bublatzky, Florian ^a   Junghöfer, Markus ^b   Weike, Almut I ^c   Hamm, Alfons O ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Competition; Emotion; EPN; Event related potential; P3

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; COMPETITION; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 54049126468     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.07.024     Document Type: Article

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