The emotional attentional blink: What we know so far. Running title: The emotional attentional blink

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue APR 2013, 2013, Pages

  McHugo, Maureen ^a,b   Olatunji, Bunmi O ^b   Zald, David H ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anxiety; Attentional blink; Emotion; Stimulus driven attention

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ATTENTION; BLINDNESS; BLINKING; BRAIN REGION; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL ATTENTIONAL BLINK; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PERCEPTION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; TEMPOROPARIETAL JUNCTION; VENTRAL FRONTAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84933676138     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00151     Document Type: Review

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