Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
10465307 Neuropsychologia 2011 9 Pages PDF
Abstract
► Attention can be oriented to the emotional status of a word stimulus. ► Emotional orienting yields faster responses to validly cued words. ► Emotional and semantic orienting modulate N400 responses to word stimuli. ► Emotional orienting additionally modulates the earlier P200 potential. ► This adaptive mechanism ensures rapid processing of emotional stimuli.
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