How (and why) emotion enhances the subjective sense of recollection

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 147-152

  Phelps, Elizabeth A ^a,c   Sharot, Tali ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Psychology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Emotion; Hippocampus; Memory; Recollection

Indexed keywords

EID: 42149152674     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8721.2008.00565.x     Document Type: Article

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