Time course of affective bias in visual attention: Convergent evidence from steady-state visual evoked potentials and behavioral data

NeuroImage

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1326-1333

  Hindi Attar, Catherine ^a,b   Andersen, Søren K ^a   Müller, Matthias M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotion; IAPS; Object categorization; Steady state visual evoked potentials; Time course

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SEMANTICS; STEADY STATE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BRAIN; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77957324283     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.06.074     Document Type: Article

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