Impact of meditation on emotional processing-A visual ERP study

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 44-48

  Sobolewski, Aleksander ^a   Holt, Ewa ^b   Kublik, Ewa ^a   Wróbel, Andrzej ^a  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b SWPS UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

Author keywords

EEG; Emotion; IAPS; Late positive potential; Meditation; Visual ERP

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BLINKING; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATE POSITIVE POTENTIAL; MALE; MEDITATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDITATION; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79960913853     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: 18728111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2011.06.002     Document Type: Article

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