Cardiac awareness and autonomic cardiac reactivity during emotional picture viewing and mental stress

Psychophysiology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 342-354

  Herbert, Beate M ^a,b   Pollatos, Olga ^c   Flor, Herta ^a   Enck, Paul ^b   Schandry, Rainer ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autonomic reactivity; Cardiac awareness; Emotion; Interoception; Somatic markers

Indexed keywords

EID: 76349107158     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00931.x     Document Type: Article

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