You don't like me, do you? Enhanced ERP responses to averted eye gaze in social anxiety

Biological Psychology

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 263-269

  Schmitz, Julian ^a   Scheel, Corinna N ^a   Rigon, Alessandro ^b   Gross, James J ^b   Blechert, Jens ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Attentional bias; EPN; ERP; Eye gaze; LPP; P100; Social anxiety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONALITY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; UNPLEASANT SENSATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864480836     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: 18736246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2012.07.004     Document Type: Article

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