Emotional valence and arousal affect reading in an interactive way: Neuroimaging evidence for an approach-withdrawal framework

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 79-89

  Citron, Francesca M M ^a   Gray, Marcus A ^b,c   Critchley, Hugo D ^c,d,e   Weekes, Brendan S ^f   Ferstl, Evelyn C ^g  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c BRIGHTON AND SUSSEX MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d SUSSEX PARTNERSHIP NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^g UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Approach; Arousal; Emotional words; FMRI; Valence; Withdrawal

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; EXPLICIT MEMORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPLICIT MEMORY; INSULA; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROIMAGING; PSYCHOSOCIAL WITHDRAWAL; READING; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION; YOUNG ADULT;

APPROACH; AROUSAL; EMOTIONAL WORDS; FMRI; VALENCE; WITHDRAWAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AROUSAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893422854     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.01.002     Document Type: Article

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