Fact or fiction? An event-related potential study of implicit emotion regulation

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 476, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 84-88

  Mocaiber, Izabela ^a   Pereira, Mirtes Garcia ^a   Erthal, Fátima Smith ^a   Machado Pinheiro, Walter ^a   David, Isabel A ^a   Cagy, Maurício ^a   Volchan, Eliane ^b   de Oliveira, Letícia ^a  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotion regulation; LPP; Reaction time; Unpleasant pictures

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; DOWN REGULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AFFECT; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952759368     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.04.008     Document Type: Article

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