Looking Inward: Shifting Attention Within Working Memory Representations Alters Emotional Responses

Psychological Science

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1461-1466

  Thiruchselvam, Ravi ^a   Hajcak, Greg ^b   Gross, James J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

attention; emotion regulation; emotional control; emotions; event related potentials; evoked potentials; short term memory; working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871195866     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612449838     Document Type: Article

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