Differential contribution of right and left amygdala to affective information processing

Behavioural Neurology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 233-244

  Markowitsch, Hans J ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotion; Encoding; Fear; Lateralisation; Memory block; Retrieval

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; COGNITION; EMOTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGE ABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION;

EID: 0032230390     PISSN: 09534180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/1999/180434     Document Type: Article

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