EEG and autonomic responses during performance of matching and non-matching to sample working memory tasks with emotional content

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue DECEMBER, 2011, Pages

  Garcia, Ana ^a   Uribe, Carlos Enrique ^a   Tavares, Maria Clotilde ^a   Tomaz, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brain dynamics; Emotion; Galvanic skin response; Heart rate

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GAMMA RHYTHM; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; THETA RHYTHM; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84855224639     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2011.00082     Document Type: Article

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