Accounting for immediate emotional memory enhancement

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 93-108

  Talmi, Deborah ^a,b   McGarry, Lucy M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distinctiveness; Divided attention; Emotion; Free recall memory; Semantic relatedness

Indexed keywords

EID: 81955160679     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2011.07.009     Document Type: Article

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