Pre- to postsleep change in psychophysiological reactivity to emotional films: Late-night REM sleep is associated with attenuated emotional processing

Psychophysiology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 813-825

  Werner, Gabriela G ^a   Schabus, Manuel ^a   Blechert, Jens ^a   Kolodyazhniy, Vitaliy ^a   Wilhelm, Frank H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Electrodermal activity; Electromyography; Emotion; Memory; Polysomnography; Rapid eye movement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; REM SLEEP; SLEEP; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP; SLEEP, REM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929510511     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12404     Document Type: Article

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