Brain mechanisms for emotional influences on perception and attention: What is magic and what is not

Biological Psychology - Tập 92 Số 3 - Trang 492-512 - 2013
Gilles Pourtois1, Antonio Schettino1, Patrik Vuilleumier2,3
1Department of Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium
2Department of Neuroscience, University Medical Center, Geneva, Switzerland
3Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland

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