Attentional Bias to Emotional Stimuli Is Altered During Moderate- but Not High-Intensity Exercise

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1415-1424

  Tian, Qu ^a   Smith, J Carson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute exercise; Affect; Dot probe; Dual task; Emotional faces

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLLEGE STUDENT; EMOTION; EXERCISE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; REST;

ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; EXERCISE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHYSICAL EXERTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83755172587     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023568     Document Type: Article

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