Memory for thematically arousing events

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1149-1159

  Laney, Cara ^a   Campbell, Hannah V ^b   Heuer, Friderike ^b   Reisberg, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b REED COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EMOTIONALITY; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY NARROWING; NORMAL HUMAN; THEMATICALLY INDUCED AROUSAL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 14844352467     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196888     Document Type: Article

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