How 'love' and 'hate' differ from 'sleep': Using combined electro/magnetoencephalographic data to reveal the sources of early cortical responses to emotional words

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 875-888

  Keuper, Kati ^a   Zwanzger, Peter ^a   Nordt, Marisa ^a   Eden, Annuschka ^a   Laeger, Inga ^a   Zwitserlood, Pienie ^a   Kissler, Johanna ^b   Junghöfer, Markus ^a   Dobel, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arousal; EEG; Emotion; EPN; MEG; P1; Source reconstruction; Words

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BRAIN; DEVICES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; READING; RECALL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893742733     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22220     Document Type: Article

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