Emotional modulation of visual cortex activity: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study

NeuroReport

Volumn 20, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 1344-1350

  Minati, Ludovico ^a   Jones, Catherine L ^a   Gray, Marcus A ^a   Medford, Nick ^a   Harrison, Neil A ^a   Critchley, Hugo D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autonomic response; Blood pressure; Emotional modulation; Emotional pictures; Functional near infrared spectroscopy; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRIGHTNESS; CONTRAST; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; ENTROPY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MODULATION; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSING; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349679313     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e328330c751     Document Type: Article

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