The Role of Overt Attention in Emotion-Modulated Memory

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 776-785

  Riggs, Lily ^a,b   McQuiggan, Douglas A ^a   Farb, Norman ^b   Anderson, Adam K ^a,b   Ryan, Jennifer D ^a,b  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotion; Eye movement monitoring; Memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EMOTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RECOGNITION; STIMULUS;

ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052288501     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022591     Document Type: Article

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