Emotional memory formation under lower versus higher stress conditions

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue DEC, 2010, Pages

  Kogan, Inna ^a   Richter Levin, Gal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Consolidation; Emotional memory; Interference

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955925490     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2010.00183     Document Type: Article

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