Communalities and differences in fear potentiation between cardiac defense and eyeblink startle

Psychophysiology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1137-1140

  Sánchez, María B ^a   Guerra, Pedro ^a   Muñoz, Miguel A ^a   Mata, José Luís ^b   Bradley, Margaret M ^c   Lang, Peter J ^c   Vila, Jaime ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Defense; Emotion; Eyeblink; Fear; Heart rate; Startle

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EYELID REFLEX; FEAR; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; LATENT PERIOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SNAKE; SPIDER; STARTLE REFLEX; WHITE NOISE;

BLINKING; FEAR; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; STARTLE REACTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65849376197     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00861.x     Document Type: Article

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