Mark my words: Tone of voice changes affective word representations in memory

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Schirmer, Annett ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RECOGNITION; SPEECH; VERBAL MEMORY; VOICE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMOTION; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950148080     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009080     Document Type: Article

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