Reward learning and negative emotion during rapid attentional competition

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Yokoyama, Takemasa ^a,b,c   Padmala, Srikanth ^a   Pessoa, Luiz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Affective significance; Attention; Motivational significance; Negative emotion; Reward learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926674815     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00269     Document Type: Article

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