Emotional enhancement effect of memory: Removing the influence of cognitive factors

Learning and Memory

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 569-573

  Sommer, Tobias ^a   Gläscher, Jan ^a   Moritz, Steffen ^a   Büchel, Christian ^a  

^a University of Medical School Hamburg Eppendorf   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; EMOTION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MEMORY; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE;

ADULT; AROUSAL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY;

EID: 49249085860     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.995108     Document Type: Article

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