Effects of emotional conditioning on early visual processing: Temporal dynamics revealed by ERP single-trial analysis

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 909-919

  Liu, Yuelu ^a   Keil, Andreas ^b   Ding, Mingzhou ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

ASEO; Conditioning; Emotional learning; Event related potential; Single trial analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXPERIMENTATION; FEMALE; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISION;

BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863282030     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21259     Document Type: Article

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