Immediate memory consequences of the effect of emotion on attention to pictures

Learning and Memory

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 172-182

  Talmi, Deborah ^a,c   Anderson, Adam K ^a   Riggs, Lily ^a,b   Caplan, Jeremy B ^b   Moscovitch, Morris ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c WELLCOME TRUST CENTRE FOR NEUROIMAGING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SPINDLE CELL;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ATTENTION; BRAIN; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 41149159770     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.722908     Document Type: Article

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