The limits of arousal's memory-impairing effects on nearby information

American Journal of Psychology

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 349-369

  Mather, Mara ^a   Gorlick, Marissa A ^a   Nesmith, Kathryn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RECALL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RECOGNITION; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349130574     PISSN: 00029556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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