Facilitation of visual processing by masked presentation of a conditioned facial stimulus

NeuroReport

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 750-754

  Lee, Tae Ho ^a   Lim, Seung Lark ^a   Lee, Kyu Yong ^a   Choi, June Seek ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Early posterior negativity; Emotion; Event related potential; Fear conditioning; Perception; Subliminal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL MASKING;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649655901     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32832a5cfa     Document Type: Article

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