Attentional Modulation of Emotional Conflict Processing with Flanker Tasks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Zhou, Pingyan ^a,b   Liu, Xun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION TEST; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FLANKER TASK; GENDER; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STIMULUS RESPONSE COMPATIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875466747     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060548     Document Type: Article

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