See no evil: Directing visual attention within unpleasant images modulates the electrocortical response

Psychophysiology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 28-33

  Dunning, Jonathan P ^b   Hajcak, Greg ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Attention; Emotion; ERP; IAPS; LPP

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNPLEASANT IMAGE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AFFECT; ATTENTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149116480     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2008.00723.x     Document Type: Article

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