From early sensory specialization to later perceptual generalization: Dynamic temporal progression in perceiving individual threats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 587-594

  Krusemark, Elizabeth A ^a   Li, Wen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DISGUST; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; LINGUAL GYRUS; LOW RESOLUTION BRAIN ELECTROMAGNETIC TOMOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL GYRUS; THREAT; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WAVEFORM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872093464     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1379-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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