Selective attention to task-irrelevant emotional distractors is unaffected by the perceptual load associated with a foreground task

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Attar, Catherine Hindi ^a,b   Müller, Matthias M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; EMOTIONALITY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SENSORY ANALYSIS; STEADY STATE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84861406722     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037186     Document Type: Article

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