Affective motivational direction drives asymmetric frontal hemisphere activation

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 232, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2121-2130

  Poole, Bryan D ^a   Gable, Philip A ^b  

^a LEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Approach motivation; EEG; Hemispheric activation; Withdrawal motivation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC ACTIVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MODEL; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; VISUAL STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902553510     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-014-3902-4     Document Type: Article

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