Memory for negatively arousing and neutral pictorial stimuli using a repeated testing paradigm

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 749-767

  Kern, Rosalie P ^a   Libkuman, Terry M ^a   Otani, Hajime ^a  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; STIMULUS;

EID: 0036829049     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930143000581     Document Type: Article

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