Regulating the blink: Cognitive reappraisal modulates attention

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Adam, Ruth ^a   Schönfelder, Sandra ^b   Forneck, Johanna ^a   Wessa, Michèle ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affect; Attentional blink; Emotion; Regulation; Top down

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897675423     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00143     Document Type: Article

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