Emotional primes modulate the responses to others' pain: An ERP study

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 220, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 277-286

  Meng, Jing ^a   Hu, Li ^a   Shen, Lin ^b   Yang, Zhou ^a   Chen, Hong ^a   Huang, Xiting ^a   Jackson, Todd ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHONGQING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Emotion; Event related potentials (ERP); P3; Pain; Priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; AROUSAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864286056     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-012-3136-2     Document Type: Article

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