Culture shapes electrocortical responses during emotion suppression

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 595-601

  Murata, Asuka ^a   Moser, Jason S ^b   Kitayama, Shinobu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Emotion regulation; Event related potentials; Late positive potential; Suppression

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CAUCASIAN; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LATE POSITIVE POTENTIAL; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SUPPRESSION; YOUNG ADULT;

CULTURE; EMOTION REGULATION; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS; LATE POSITIVE POTENTIAL; SUPPRESSION;

ADOLESCENT; ASIAN AMERICANS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; CULTURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879514830     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss036     Document Type: Article

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