The effects of emotional stimuli on target detection: Indirect and direct resource costs

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1649-1658

  Ossowski, Ulrike ^a   Malinen, Sanna ^a   Helton, William S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Attention; Dissociative tendencies; Emotional processing; Sustained attention; Vigilance

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ALERTNESS; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL STIMULUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN SATURATION; PERCEPTION; SELF REPORT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054862214     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2011.08.015     Document Type: Article

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