The role of somatic threat feature detectors in the attentional bias toward pain: Effects of spatial attention

Psychophysiology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 397-409

  Dowman, Robert ^a  

^a CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; P2; P3a; Pain; Threat; Threat feature detection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURAL NERVE;

ATTENTION; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; SURAL NERVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79551703610     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.01068.x     Document Type: Article

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