Subclinical alexithymia modulates early audio-visual perceptive and attentional event-related potentials

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Delle Vigne, Dyna ^a   Kornreich, Charles ^a   Verbanck, Paul ^a   Campanella, Salvatore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; Bimodal; Emotion; Event related potentials (ERPS); Subclinical

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; RATING SCALE; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; TORONTO ALEXITHYMIA SCALE; VISION;

EID: 84896997793     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00106     Document Type: Article

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