Influence of aggression on information processing in the emotional Stroop task - An event-related potential study

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue SEP, 2009, Pages

  Bertsch, Katja ^a   Böhnke, Robina ^a   Kruk, Menno R ^b   Naumann, Ewald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Angry face; Attentional bias; Emotional expression; ERP; Interference; Threat

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954743774     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.08.028.2009     Document Type: Article

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