The interaction of anticipatory anxiety and emotional picture processing: An event-related brain potential study

Psychophysiology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 687-696

  Bublatzky, Florian ^a   Flaisch, Tobias ^a   Stockburger, Jessica ^a   Schmälzle, Ralf ^a   Schupp, Harald T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attention; Emotion; ERP; Threat of Shock

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISION; PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANXIETY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROSHOCK; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953458710     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.00966.x     Document Type: Article

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