Spatial attention-related modulation of the N170 by backward masked fearful faces

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 20-27

  Carlson, Joshua M ^a,b   Reinke, Karen S ^a,c  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b St Francis Hospital The Heart Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT SPRINGFIELD   (United States)

Author keywords

Backward masking; Emotion; Facial expressions; Fear; Spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL MASKING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 77952544327     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2010.01.007     Document Type: Article

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