Are effects of emotion in single words non-lexical? Evidence from event-related brain potentials

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2766-2775

  Palazova, Marina ^a   Mantwill, Katharina ^a   Sommer, Werner ^a   Schacht, Annekathrin ^a,b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotion; Event related potentials; Lexicality; Word processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AROUSAL; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; REFERENCE VALUES; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960167311     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.06.005     Document Type: Article

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