Stress reduces use of negative feedback in a feedback-based learning task

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 248-255

  Petzold, Antje ^a   Plessow, Franziska ^a   Goschke, Thomas ^a   Kirschbaum, Clemens ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortisol; Psychosocial stress; Reward based learning

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL STRESS; MENTAL TASK; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; SALIVA ANALYSIS;

ADULT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; REWARD; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77951639133     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018930     Document Type: Article

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