Lateralization effects on the cardiac modulation of acoustic startle eye blink

Biological Psychology

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 287-291

  Schulz, André ^a   Lass Hennemann, Johanna ^a   Richter, Steffen ^a   Römer, Sonja ^a   Blumenthal, Terry D ^b   Schächinger, Hartmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baroreflex; Hemispheric specialization; Interoception; Lateralization; Startle modulation; Visceral afferents

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EYELID REFLEX; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEART CYCLE; HEART RATE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; R WAVE; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND INTENSITY; STARTLE REFLEX; VOLUNTEER;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLINKING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; STARTLE REACTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 61349181915     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2008.10.006     Document Type: Article

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