Stress potentiates early and attenuates late stages of visual processing

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1156-1161

  Shackman, Alexander J ^a,b   Maxwell, Jeffrey S ^d   McMenamin, Brenton W ^e   Greischar, Lawrence L ^a   Davidson, Richard J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; COGNITION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL STRESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOCK; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSHOCK; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 78751541015     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3384-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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