Expectation decreases brain susceptibility to fearful stimuli: ERP evidence from a modified emotion evaluation task

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 514, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 198-203

  Yang, Jiemin ^a,b   Yuan, Jiajin ^a,b   Li, Hong ^a,c  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c LIAONING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Brain susceptibility; Event related potentials; Expectation; Fearful emotion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; EMOTION; EVALUATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXPECTATION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ATTENTION; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862782954     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.02.094     Document Type: Article

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