Acquired affective associations induce emotion effects in word recognition: An ERP study

Brain and Language

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 75-83

  Fritsch, Nathalie ^a   Kuchinke, Lars ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotional connotation; ERP; Evaluative conditioning; Pseudowords

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONING; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOLUNTEER; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AFFECT; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84871713225     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.12.001     Document Type: Article

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