Impact of emotion on consciousness: Positive stimuli enhance conscious reportability

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Rø Thomsen, Kristine ^a,b   Lou, Hans C ^b   Joensson, Morten ^a,b   Hyam, Jonathan A ^c   Holland, Peter ^c   Parsons, Christine E ^a   Young, Katherine S ^a   Møller, Arne ^b   Stein, Alan ^a   Green, Alex L ^c   Kringelbach, Morten L ^a,b,c   Aziz, Tipu Z ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHRONIC PAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EMOTION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; CONSCIOUSNESS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION;

EID: 79954456150     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018686     Document Type: Article

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