Influence of affective significance on different levels of processing using pupil dilation in an analogical reasoning task

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 236-243

  Prehn, Kristin ^a   Heekeren, Hauke R ^a   van der Meer, Elke ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Analogical reasoning; Decision making; Emotional and cognitive processing; Pupillary responses; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PUPIL; PUPIL REFLEX; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PUPIL; REACTION TIME; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79551638991     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2010.10.014     Document Type: Article

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