Arousal, working memory, and conscious awareness in contingency learning

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1105-1113

  Cosand, Louise D ^a   Cavanagh, Thomas M ^a   Brown, Ashley A ^a   Courtney, Christopher G ^a   Rissling, Anthony J ^a   Schell, Anne M ^b   Dawson, Michael E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arousal; Attentional limited capacity; Cognitive masking task; Conscious awareness; Contingency learning; Electrodermal arousal; Exploration; Individual differences; Skin conductance; Working memory

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTINGENCY LEARNING; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MASKING; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; COGNITION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONSCIOUSNESS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55749110424     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2008.04.007     Document Type: Article

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