Valence, arousal, and cognitive control: A voluntary task-switching study

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue NOV, 2011, Pages

  Demanet, Jelle ^a   Liefooghe, Baptist ^a   Verbruggen, Frederick ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affective stimuli; Cognitive control; Emotional control; IAPS; Task switching; Voluntary task switching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867073117     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00336     Document Type: Article

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