Neuroimaging evidence for the emotional potency of odor-evoked memory

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 371-378

  Herz, Rachel S ^a   Eliassen, James ^b   Beland, Sophia ^a   Souza, Timothy ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; fMRI; Memory; Olfaction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ODOR; ODOR EVOKED MEMORY; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; RECALL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0344256436     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2003.08.009     Document Type: Article

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