The effect of emotional stress on involuntary and voluntary conscious memories

Memory

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 48-57

  Hall, Nicoline Marie ^a   Berntsen, Dorthe ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NARRATIVE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECALL; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; THEORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 37749005119     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658210701333271     Document Type: Article

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