Will the glass be half full or half empty? Brain potentials and emotional expectations

Biological Psychology

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 131-140

  Moreno, Eva M ^a   Vázquez, Carmelo ^b  

^a INSTITUTO PLURIDISCIPLINAR   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Emotion regulation; Event related potentials (ERPs); Expectations; Language processing; N400; Optimism; Pessimism; Post N400 frontal positivity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PESSIMISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052506494     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: 18736246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2011.07.003     Document Type: Article

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