Emotion and attention effects: Is it all a matter of timing? Not yet

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Pessoa, Luiz ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Automaticity; Emotion; Timing

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEUROIMAGING; PERCEPTION;

EID: 79953006739     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2010.00172     Document Type: Article

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