The emotive neuroscience of embodiment

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 27-37

  Price, Tom F ^a   Peterson, Carly K ^a   Harmon Jones, Eddie ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric frontal cortical activity; Embodiment; Emotion; Late positive potential; Motivation; Neuroscience; Startle eyeblink response

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857798990     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-011-9258-1     Document Type: Article

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