Negative emotion does not modulate rapid feature integration effects

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue APR, 2012, Pages

  Trübutschek, Darinka ^a   Egner, Tobias ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binding; Cognitive control; Emotion; Event files; Feature integration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867060937     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00100     Document Type: Article

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