Processing of angry voices is modulated by visual load

NeuroImage

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 485-490

  Mothes Lasch, Martin ^a   Miltner, Wolfgang H R ^a   Straube, Thomas ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Cross modal; Emotion; FMRI; Prosody

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BOLD SIGNAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTUAL LOAD; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; VOICE ANALYSIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGER; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITIVE RESERVE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864404628     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.07.005     Document Type: Article

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