Anxiety and visual-spatial memory updating in young children: An investigation using emotional facial expressions

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 223-240

  Visu Petra, Laura ^a   Ţincaş, Ioana ^a   Cheie, Lavinia ^a   Benga, Oana ^a  

^a BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Children; Emotional facial expressions; Updating; Visual spatial working memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AFFECT; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SPATIAL MEMORY; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 76949086185     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930903387546     Document Type: Article

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