Picturing survival memories: Enhanced memory after fitness-relevant processing occurs for verbal and visual stimuli

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 23-28

  Otgaar, Henry ^a   Smeets, Tom ^a   Van Bergen, Saskia ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION DISORDER; RECALL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75149144439     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.38.1.23     Document Type: Article

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