The costs and benefits of processing emotional stimuli during rapid serial visual presentation

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 296-326

  Ihssen, Niklas ^a   Keil, Andreas ^b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION;

EID: 60749088313     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930801987504     Document Type: Article

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