Looking at emotional words is not the same as reading emotional words: Behavioral and neural correlates

Psychophysiology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 748-757

  Hinojosa, José A ^a   Méndez Bértolo, Constantino ^a   Pozo, Miguel A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO PLURIDISCIPLINAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Emotion; ERPs; Language

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMOTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953378809     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.00982.x     Document Type: Article

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