Pictures cueing threat: Brain dynamics in viewing explicitly instructed danger cues

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 611-622

  Bublatzky, Florian ^a   Schupp, Harald T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotion; ERP; Threat of shock

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SELF REPORT; TIME;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN WAVES; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SELF REPORT; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865719937     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsr032     Document Type: Article

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