Emotional valence and arousal effects on memory and hemispheric asymmetries

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 10-17

  Mneimne, Malek ^a   Powers, Alice S ^a   Walton, Kate E ^a   Kosson, David S ^b   Fonda, Samantha ^a   Simonetti, Jessica ^a  

^a ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arousal; Emotion; Lateralization; Memory; Valence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VERBALIZATION; VISUAL FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AROUSAL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955280274     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2010.05.011     Document Type: Article

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