Cross-modal emotional attention: Emotional voices modulate early stages of visual processing

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1670-1679

  Brosch, Tobias ^a   Grandjean, Didier ^a   Sander, David ^a   Scherer, Klaus R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOUND; STRIATE CORTEX; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOICE; EVOKED RESPONSE; PROSODY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SOUND LOCALIZATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

CROSS-MODAL; EMOTIONAL ATTENTION; EMOTIONAL VOICES; EVENT-RELATED BRAIN POTENTIAL; LOCALISED; PRIORITIZATION; SENSORY MODALITY; SPATIAL LOCATION; VISUAL ATTENTION; VISUAL-PROCESSING;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 67650453728     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21110     Document Type: Article

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