The effects of valence and arousal on the neural activity leading to subsequent memory

Psychophysiology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1190-1199

  Mickley Steinmetz, Katherine R ^a,b   Kensinger, Elizabeth A ^a,b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; FMRI PET MRI; Learning memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIVALENCE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 70350602660     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00868.x     Document Type: Article

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