Emotional automaticity is a matter of timing

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 5825-5829

  Luo, Qian ^a   Holroyd, Tom ^a   Majestic, Catherine ^a   Cheng, Xi ^a   Schechter, Julia ^a   James Blair, R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL AUTOMATICITY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ATTENTION; BRAIN; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951653746     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.BC-5668-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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