Remembering beauty: Roles of orbitofrontal and hippocampal regions in successful memory encoding of attractive faces

NeuroImage

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 653-660

  Tsukiura, Takashi ^a,b   Cabeza, Roberto ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; NEUROIMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BEAUTY; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FACE; FEMALE; FOOD; GYRUS CINGULI; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957970104     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.07.046     Document Type: Article

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