Gender moderates valence effects on the late positive potential to emotional distracters

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 551, Issue , 2013, Pages 89-93

  Syrjänen, Elmeri ^a   Wiens, Stefan ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotion; Event related potential; Gender; Habituation; Late positive potential

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GENDER; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATE POSITIVE POTENTIAL; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION;

ATTENTION; EMOTION; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIAL; GENDER; HABITUATION; LATE POSITIVE POTENTIAL;

ADULT; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84882259449     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2013.07.018     Document Type: Article

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