Tracking the implicit self using event-related potentials

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 885-899

  Egenolf, Yvonne ^a   Stein, Maria ^a,b   Koenig, Thomas ^b   Grosse Holtforth, Martin ^c   Dierks, Thomas ^b   Caspar, Franz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Depression; ERP; Implicit Association Test (IAT); Implicit self esteem

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SELF CONCEPT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SELF CONCEPT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891392970     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13415-013-0169-3     Document Type: Article

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