Emotional Modulation of the Attentional Blink: Is There an Effect of Stress?

Emotion

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 283-288

  Schwabe, Lars ^a   Wolf, Oliver T ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

attention; attentional blink; cortisol; emotion; stress

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; COLD PRESSOR TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; EMOTIONALITY; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; STRESS;

ATTENTIONAL BLINK; BLOOD PRESSURE; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; REACTION TIME; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950566312     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017751     Document Type: Article

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