Emotional memories are resilient to time: Evidence from the parietal ERP old/new effect

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 632-640

  Weymar, Mathias ^a   Löw, Andreas ^a   Hamm, Alfons O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotion; Episodic memory; ERP old new effect; Long term memory; Parietal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AROUSAL; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952389842     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21051     Document Type: Article

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