The Causal Effect of Mental Imagery on Emotion Assessed Using Picture-Word Cues

Emotion

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 395-409

  Holmes, Emily A ^a   Mathews, Andrew ^b   Mackintosh, Bundy ^c   Dalgleish, Tim ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^d MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

anxiety; autobiographical memory; emotion; evaluative learning; mental imagery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PICTURE WORD; SENSATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AFFECT; ANXIETY; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; COGNITION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; VOCABULARY;

EID: 44949121631     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.8.3.395     Document Type: Article

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