Domain-specific control mechanisms for emotional and nonemotional conflict processing

Cognition

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 234-245

  Soutschek, Alexander ^a,b   Schubert, Torsten ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Munich Center for Neurosciences Brain and Mind   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Conflict processing; Dual task performance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; EMOTIONAL CONFLICT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONEMOTIONAL CONFLICT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84871782218     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.10.004     Document Type: Article

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