The context counts: Congruent learning and testing environments prevent memory retrieval impairment following stress

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 229-236

  Lars, Schwabe ^a   Wolf, Oliver T ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; RECALL; SALIVA LEVEL; STRESS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CUES; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ODORS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VANILLA;

EID: 68949160775     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/CABN.9.3.229     Document Type: Article

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