Stop feeling: Inhibition of emotional interference following stop-signal trials

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue FEB, 2013, Pages

  Kalanthroff, Eyal ^a   Cohen, Noga ^a   Henik, Avishai ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Emotional interference; Emotional processing; Executive functions; Inhibitory control; SSRT; Stop signal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; EMOTION INHIBITION; EMOTIONALITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SIGNAL DETECTION; STOP SIGNAL TASK; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84933679779     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00078     Document Type: Article

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