Emotion and Attention Interaction: A trade-off between stimuli relevance, motivation and individual differences

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUN, 2013, Pages

  Oliveira, Leticia ^a   Mocaiber, Izabela ^a   David, Isabel A ^a   Erthal, Fátima ^b   Volchan, Eliane ^b   Pereira, Mirtes G ^a  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotion; Individual differences; Motivation; Stimuli relevance

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; DISTRACTIBILITY; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HUMAN; MENTAL TASK; MOTIVATION; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERSONALITY; PHYSICAL SENSITIVITY; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84933677986     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00364     Document Type: Article

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