Evaluative priming from subliminal emotional words: Insights from event-related potentials and individual differences related to anxiety

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 383-400

  Gibbons, Henning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affective priming; Anxiety; Evaluate priming; Event related potentials; Positive slow wave; Unconscious words

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ART; ARTICLE; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PAINTING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; JUDGMENT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349180193     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2009.02.007     Document Type: Article

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