Early emotion word processing: Evidence from event-related potentials

Biological Psychology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 95-104

  Scott, Graham G ^a   O'Donnell, Patrick J ^a   Leuthold, Hartmut ^a   Sereno, Sara C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emotion words; EPN; ERPs; Event related potentials; Lexical access; Lexical decision; N1; N400; P1; P300; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; AROUSAL; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58049220833     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2008.03.010     Document Type: Article

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