How emotion leads to selective memory: Neuroimaging evidence

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1831-1842

  Waring, Jill D ^a   Kensinger, Elizabeth A ^a,b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Arousal; FMRI; Scenes; Trade off; Valence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; RECOGNITION; SELECTIVE MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; AROUSAL; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79956100991     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.03.007     Document Type: Article

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