Brain dynamics associated with recollective experiences of emotional events

NeuroReport

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 827-831

  Weymar, Mathias ^a   Löw, Andreas ^a   Schwabe, Lars ^b   Hamm, Alfons O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

emotion; episodic memory; event related potentials; international affective picture system; old new effect; recollection; remember know paradigm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SCALP;

ADULT; AFFECT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955227457     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32833d180a     Document Type: Article

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