EEG alpha and cortical inhibition in affective attention

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 26-36

  Uusberg, Andero ^a   Uibo, Helen ^a   Kreegipuu, Kairi ^a   Allik, Jüri ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b ESTONIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Affective tuning; Cortical inhibition; EEG alpha; Emotion; Motivated attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNIVERSITY STUDENT;

AFFECTIVE TUNING; CORTICAL INHIBITION; EEG ALPHA; EMOTION; MOTIVATED ATTENTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EROTICA; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880375065     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: 18727697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2013.04.020     Document Type: Article

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