A biased activation theory of the cognitive and attentional modulation of emotion

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue FEB, 2013, Pages

  Rolls, Edmund T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognition; Decision making; Emotion; Orbitofrontal cortex; Planning; The noisy brain

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; ESTHETICS; FLAVOR; HUMAN; MEMORY; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SMELLING; TASTE; TOUCH;

EID: 84933676999     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00074     Document Type: Article

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