Tonic pain grabs attention, but leaves the processing of facial expressions intact-Evidence from event-related brain potentials

Biological Psychology

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 242-248

  Wieser, Matthias J ^a   Gerdes, Antje B M ^a,b   Greiner, René ^a   Reicherts, Philipp ^a   Pauli, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Event related brain potentials; Facial expressions; Pain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL VALENCE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATE POSITIVE POTENTIAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY STIMULATION; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861205498     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: 18736246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2012.03.019     Document Type: Article

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