Emotional arousal amplifies the effects of biased competition in the brain

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2067-2077

  Lee, Tae Ho ^a   Sakaki, Michiko ^a   Cheng, Ruth ^a   Velasco, Ricardo ^a   Mather, Mara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arousal biased competition; Emotion induced enhancement and impairment; Emotional arousal; Fear conditioning; FFA and PPA; Perception and attention

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BLOOD; BRAIN; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONED REFLEX; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BRAIN; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928678161     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsu015     Document Type: Article

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