Psychophysical and neural evidence for emotion-enhanced perceptual vividness

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 33, 2012, Pages 11201-11212

  Todd, Rebecca M ^a,b   Talmi, Deborah ^c   Schmitz, Taylor W ^a   Susskind, Josh ^d   Anderson, Adam K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BLOOD OXYGENATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NOISE; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864992313     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0155-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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