Slow biasing of processing resources in early visual cortex is preceded by emotional cue extraction in emotion-attention competition

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1477-1490

  Schönwald, Liane I ^a   Müller, Matthias M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention emotion interaction; Attentional resources; Early posterior negativity; Human EEG; Late positive potential; Steady state visual evoked potential; Temporal neural dynamics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; COMPETITION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE; STEADY STATE VISUAL EVOKED POTENTIAL; VARIABLE RESOLUTION ELECTROMAGNETIC TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896405323     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22267     Document Type: Article

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