Phasic boosting of auditory perception by visual emotion

Biological Psychology

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 471-478

  Selinger, Lenka ^a   Domínguez Borràs, Judith ^a,b   Escera, Carles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Auditory N1; Crossmodal emotion; ERP

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AUDITORY N1; CROSSMODAL EMOTION; ERP;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84887011670     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: 18736246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2013.09.004     Document Type: Article

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