Emotion and the motivational brain

Biological Psychology

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 437-450

  Lang, Peter J ^a   Bradley, Margaret M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; ERP; Eye; FMRI; Imagery; Neuroscience; Picture

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; DEFENSE MECHANISM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONALITY; EVOLUTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HABITUATION; HUMAN; IMAGERY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOTIVATION; NEUROSCIENCE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; PUNISHMENT; REFLEX; REVIEW; REWARD; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STARTLE REFLEX; THREAT; VISUAL CORTEX;

ATTENTION; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION;

EID: 77953535449     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2009.10.007     Document Type: Review

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