Sleep's role in the consolidation of emotional episodic memories

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 290-295

  Payne, Jessica D ^a   Kensinger, Elizabeth A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

affect; amygdala; consolidation; emotion; fMRI; hippocampus; memory; sleep; stabilization; trade off

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649429739     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963721410383978     Document Type: Article

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