Do not neglect small troubles: Moderately negative stimuli affect target processing more intensely than highly negative stimuli

Brain Research

Volumn 1415, Issue , 2011, Pages 84-95

  Yuan, Jiajin ^a,b   Lu, Hui ^a,b   Yang, Jieming ^a,b   Li, Hong ^a,b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cue target paradigm; Event related potential; Mild unpleasant stimulus; Target processing; Valence intensity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AROUSAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052835041     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2011.07.053     Document Type: Article

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