Cardiac vagal tone predicts inhibited attention to fearful faces

Emotion

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1292-1302

  Park, Gewnhi ^a   Van Bavel, Jay J ^b   Vasey, Michael W ^c   Thayer, Julian F ^c  

^a Inje University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Inhibition of return; Vagal tone

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; VAGUS TONE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; VAGUS NERVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860291182     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0028528     Document Type: Article

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