Effects of unconscious processing on implicit memory for fearful faces

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Yang, Jiongjiong ^a   Xu, Xiaohong ^a   Du, Xiaoya ^a   Shi, Cuntong ^a   Fang, Fang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPLICIT MEMORY; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AWARENESS; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; REACTION TIME; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79551629274     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014641     Document Type: Article

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