Font size matters-emotion and attention in cortical responses to written words

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Bayer, Mareike ^a   Sommer, Werner ^a   Schacht, Annekathrin ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WRITTEN LANGUAGE; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; READING;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING;

EID: 84860776783     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036042     Document Type: Article

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