Affective processing within 1/10th of a second: High arousal is necessary for early facilitative processing of negative but not positive words

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 389-397

  Hofmann, Markus J ^a   Kuchinke, Lars ^a   Tamm, Sascha ^a   Võ, Melissa L H ^b   Jacobs, Arthur M ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AROUSAL; AUDIOMETRY, EVOKED RESPONSE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 72449148694     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/9.4.389     Document Type: Article

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