Attachment and selective attention: Disorganization and emotional Stroop reaction time

Development and Psychopathology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 99-126

  Atkinson, Leslie ^a,c   Leung, Eman ^a   Goldberg, Susan ^a   Benoit, Diane ^a   Poulton, Lori ^a   Myhal, Natalie ^a   Blokland, Kirsten ^a   Kerr, Sheila ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Technolog Inc

^c RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; NORADRENALIN;

ADULT; AMBIVALENCE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISORIENTATION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTIVATION; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; REACTION TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SEPARATION ANXIETY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; ATTENTION; BLOOD; COLOR; EMOTION; INTERVIEW; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ATTENTION; COGNITION; COLOR; DOPAMINE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; NOREPINEPHRINE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; REACTION TIME;

EID: 65649116883     PISSN: 09545794     EISSN: 14692198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954579409000078     Document Type: Article

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