Electrical neuroimaging reveals content-specific effects of threat in primary visual cortex and fronto-parietal attentional networks

NeuroImage

Volumn 98, Issue , 2014, Pages 11-22

  Rossi, Valentina ^a   Pourtois, Gilles ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Attention; C1; ERP; Fronto parietal attentional network; State anxiety

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANTICIPATORY ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONEUROLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SENSORY CORTEX; SENSORY GATING; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ANXIETY; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FRONTAL LOBE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE NET; PARIETAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904697586     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.04.064     Document Type: Article

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