Attentional bias to briefly presented emotional distractors follows a slow time course in visual cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 44, 2011, Pages 15914-15918

  Müller, Matthias M ^a   Andersen, Søren K ^a,b   Attar, Catherine Hindi ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80155157733     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1997-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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