Are blood-injection-injury stimuli different from other negative categories? An ERP study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 478, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 171-174

  Schäfer, Axel ^a   Scharmüller, Wilfried ^a   Leutgeb, Verena ^a   Köchel, Angelika ^a   Schienle, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Attention; Blood injection injury stimuli; ERP

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BLOOD INJECTION INJURY PHOBIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; PHOBIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION; BLOOD; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; INJECTION; INJURY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; BLOOD; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953610736     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.05.010     Document Type: Article

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