Emotional modulation of the attentional blink: The neural structures involved in capturing and holding attention

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 416-425

  Schwabe, Lars ^a   Merz, Christian J ^a,b   Walter, Bertram ^b   Vaitl, Dieter ^b   Wolf, Oliver T ^a   Stark, Rudolf ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Attention; Attentional blink; Emotion; Orbitofrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INSULA; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; BLINKING; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79551483196     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.12.037     Document Type: Article

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