Emotion regulation by cognitive reappraisal - The role of frontal theta oscillations

NeuroImage

Volumn 81, Issue , 2013, Pages 412-421

  Ertl, Matthias ^a,b,c   Hildebrandt, Maria ^a   Ourina, Kristina ^a   Leicht, Gregor ^a   Mulert, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive reappraisal; EEG; Emotion regulation; Prefrontal cortex; SLORETA; Theta

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; ELECTRODE; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LOW RESOLUTION BRAIN ELECTROMAGNETIC TOMOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; VISUAL STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; YOUNG ADULT;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879473173     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.05.044     Document Type: Article

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