Turning up the Noise or Turning Down the Volume? On the Nature of the Impairment of Episodic Recognition Memory by Midazolam

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 540-549

  Malmberg, Kenneth J ^a,c   Zeelenberg, Rene ^b   Shiffrin, Richard M ^b  

^a Iowa Stt Univ of Sci/Technology   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; MIDAZOLAM;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

ATTENTION; BENZODIAZEPINES; BRAIN; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDAZOLAM; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 1542267834     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.30.2.540     Document Type: Article

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