Psychophysiological evidence of response conflict and strategic control of responses in affective priming

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 655-666

  Bartholow, Bruce D ^a   Riordan, Monica A ^b   Saults, J Scott ^a   Lust, Sarah A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective congruency; Affective priming; Categorization; ERPs; Event related potentials; Lateralized readiness potential; Response conflict

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650763328     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.02.015     Document Type: Article

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