Positive and negative sources of emotional arousal enhance long-term word-list retention when induced as long as 30 min after learning

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 40-47

  Nielson, Kristy A ^a,b,c   Powless, Mark ^a  

^a Marquette University   (United States)

^b MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Functional Neuroimaging Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Arousal; Emotion; Enhancement; Eyewitness accuracy; Intervention; Memory consolidation; Memory modulation; Time dependent facilitation; Valence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WITNESS; WORD LIST RECALL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AROUSAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REFERENCE VALUES; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 34249279470     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2007.03.005     Document Type: Article

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