Peripheral vision and preferential emotion processing

NeuroReport

Volumn 20, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 1439-1443

  De Cesarei, Andrea ^a   Codispoti, Maurizio ^a   Schupp, Harald T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotions; Event related potentials; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED RESPONSE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; TIME; VISION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74049138719     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3283317d3e     Document Type: Article

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