Event-related potentials of emotional memory: Encoding pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral pictures

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 252-263

  Dolcos, Florin ^a,b   Cabeza, Rooberto ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COLLEGE STUDENT; ELECTRODE; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; RATING SCALE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AROUSAL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AROUSAL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEMORY; MENTAL PROCESSES;

EID: 0042853161     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/CABN.2.3.252     Document Type: Article

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