Cortical reactions to verbal abuse: Event-related brain potentials reflecting the processing of socially threatening words

NeuroReport

Volumn 23, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 774-779

  Wabnitz, Pascal ^a   Martens, Ulla ^b   Neuner, Frank ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

emotion; event related potentials; exclusion; N400; social threat

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BRAIN CORTEX; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL ASPECT; SPEECH ARTICULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THREAT; VERBAL HOSTILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864871861     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: 1473558X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e328356f7a6     Document Type: Article

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