Tell Me About It: Neural Activity Elicited by Emotional Pictures and Preceding Descriptions

Emotion

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 531-543

  MacNamara, Annmarie ^a   Foti, Dan ^a   Hajcak, Greg ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

emotion; emotion regulation; LPP; P300; reappraisal

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AROUSAL; ATTENTION; CULTURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE NET; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 69049099943     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016251     Document Type: Article

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