Acute psycho-social stress does not disrupt item-method directed forgetting, emotional stimulus content does

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 346-354

  Zwissler, Bastian ^a   Koessler, Susanne ^a   Engler, Harald ^b   Schedlowski, Manfred ^b   Kissler, Johanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortisol; Directed forgetting; Emotion; Memory; Psycho social stress

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ITEM METHOD DIRECTED FORGETTING; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL STRESS; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; SALIVA LEVEL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AROUSAL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REFERENCE VALUES; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SALIVA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952627089     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2011.01.007     Document Type: Article

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