Facilitation of learning by social-emotional feedback in humans is beta-noradrenergic-dependent

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3168-3172

  Mihov, Yoan ^a   Mayer, Simon ^a   Musshoff, Frank ^a   Maier, Wolfgang ^a   Kendrick, Keith M ^b   Hurlemann, René ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emotion; Learning; Memory; Noradrenaline; Propranolol; Social

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; PLACEBO; PROPRANOLOL;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PROPRANOLOL; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955275020     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.04.035     Document Type: Article

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