Event-related potentials to acoustic startle probes during the anticipation of predictable and unpredictable threat

Psychophysiology

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 887-894

  Nelson, Brady D ^a   Hajcak, Greg ^a   Shankman, Stewart A ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related potential; N100; P300; Predictability; Startle reflex

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANTICIPATION; ATTENTION; AUDITORY EVOKED POTENTIAL; BLINKING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OCULOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; STARTLE REFLEX; UNCERTAINTY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTENTION; BLINKING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REFLEX, STARTLE; UNCERTAINTY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84931010381     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12418     Document Type: Article

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