Extending brain-training to the affective domain: Increasing cognitive and affective executive control through emotional working memory training

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Schweizer, Susanne ^a   Hampshire, Adam ^b   Dalgleish, Tim ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BRAIN TRAINING; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STROOP TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; WORKING MEMORY; BRAIN; COMPUTER INTERFACE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052870943     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024372     Document Type: Article

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