The Memory Enhancement Effect of Emotion Is Absent in Conceptual Implicit Memory

Emotion

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 294-299

  Ramponi, Cristina ^a   Handelsman, Gemma ^b   Barnard, Philip J ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

conceptual priming; emotion; implicit memory; implicit test contamination; intentional retrieval

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLICIT MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY; PSYCHOANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COGNITION; CUES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL;

EID: 77950591891     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018491     Document Type: Article

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