Anxiety and spatial attention moderate the electrocortical response to aversive pictures

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 2975-2980

  MacNamara, Annmarie ^a   Hajcak, Greg ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attention; Emotion; ERP; IAPS; Late positive potential; LPP

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AVERSION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANXIETY; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 70249110016     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.06.026     Document Type: Article

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