Brain dynamics of visual attention during anticipation and encoding of threat-and safe-cues in spider-phobic individuals

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1177-1186

  Michalowski, Jaroslaw M ^a   Pané Farré, Christiane A ^b   Löw, Andreas ^b   Hamm, Alfons O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotion; Event related potentials (ERPs); Fear; Phobia

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOBIA; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SPIDER;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPIDERS;

EID: 84941284313     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsv002     Document Type: Article

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