The influence of sex versus sex-related traits on long-term memory for gist and detail from an emotional story

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 391-400

  Cahill, Larry ^a   Gorski, Lukasz ^a   Belcher, Annabelle ^a   Huynh, Quyen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMOTION; FEMALE; FEMININITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MASCULINITY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SEX; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX;

EID: 2342638954     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2003.11.003     Document Type: Article

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