Mood states modulate activity in semantic brain areas during emotional word encoding

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1516-1530

  Kiefer, Markus ^a   Schuch, Stefanie ^b   Schenck, Wolfram ^c   Fiedler, Klaus ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotion; Episodic memory; Prefrontal cortex; Semantic processing; Ventro medial temporal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TEMPORAL CORTEX; AFFECT; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; LANGUAGE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; AFFECT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS;

EID: 34547680451     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhl062     Document Type: Article

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