Pleasant mood intensifies brain processing of cognitive control: ERP correlates

Biological Psychology

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 17-24

  Yuan, Jiajin ^a,b   Xu, Shuang ^a,b   Yang, Jiemin ^a,b   Liu, Qiang ^a,b   Chen, Antao ^a,b   Zhu, Liping ^a,b   Chen, Jie ^a,b   Li, Hong ^a,b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Event related potentials; N450; Pleasant mood; Stroop interference

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; STROOP TEST;

ADULT; AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953318966     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2011.01.004     Document Type: Article

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