The motivational dimensional model of affect: Implications for breadth of attention, memory, and cognitive categorisation

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 322-337

  Gable, Philip ^a   Harmon Jones, Eddie ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Attention; Cognitive breadth; Motivation

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONALITY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACILITATION; HUMAN; MALADJUSTMENT; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; MOTIVATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECALL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOCIAL STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 76949098428     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930903378305     Document Type: Article

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