Is the emotional modulation of the attentional blink driven by response bias?

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1176-1183

  Tibboel, Helen ^a   van Bockstaele, Bram ^a   de Houwer, Jan ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Arousal; Attention; Attentional blink; Emotion; Response bias

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TABOO; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84855675852     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2010.524192     Document Type: Article

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