Never mind the spider: Late positive potentials to phobic threat at fixation are unaffected by perceptual load

Psychophysiology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1151-1158

  Norberg, Joakim ^a   Peira, Nathalie ^a,b   Wiens, Stefan ^a,b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Stockholm Brain Institute   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attention; EEG ERP; Emotion

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649398600     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.01019.x     Document Type: Article

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