Emotional arousal enhances word repetition priming

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1027-1047

  Thomas, Laura A ^a   LaBar, Kevin S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REACTION TIME; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 28244489326     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930500172440     Document Type: Article

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