Attentional modulation of visual-evoked potentials by threat: Investigating the effect of evolutionary relevance

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 281-287

  Brown, Christopher ^a   El Deredy, Wael ^a   Blanchette, Isabelle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; ERP; Evolution; Fear module; P1; Threat; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THREAT; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SNAKES; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPIDERS; SYRINGES; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 78049430513     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2010.08.008     Document Type: Article

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