Emotion speeds up conflict resolution: A new role for the ventral anterior cingulate cortex?

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 911-919

  Kanske, Philipp ^a,b   Kotz, Sonja A ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

affect; EEG; executive control; fMRI; speech

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; CONFLICT; CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VENTRAL ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX;

BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEGOTIATING; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952834620     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq157     Document Type: Article

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