Additive effects of emotional, endogenous, and exogenous attention: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1779-1787

  Brosch, Tobias ^a,b   Pourtois, Gilles ^c   Sander, David ^b   Vuilleumier, Patrik ^b,d  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d University Medical Center   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Attention; Dot probe; EEG; Emotion; Endogenous; Exogenous

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONAL ATTENTION; EMOTIONALITY; ENDOGENOUS ATTENTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXOGENOUS ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79956084653     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.02.056     Document Type: Article

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