Emotion and attention in visual word processing-An ERP study

Biological Psychology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 75-83

  Kissler, Johanna ^a   Herbert, Cornelia ^a   Winkler, Irene ^a   Junghofer, Markus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Early posterior negativity; Emotion; Late positive complex; N1; P1; Reading; Recognition potential

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 58049213578     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2008.03.004     Document Type: Article

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