Emotional arousal modulates the encoding of crime-related details and corresponding physiological responses in the Concealed Information Test

Psychophysiology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 381-390

  Peth, Judith ^a   Vossel, Gerhard ^b   Gamer, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Concealed Information Test; Emotional arousal; Guilty Knowledge Test; Memory; Mock crime

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856707898     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01313.x     Document Type: Article

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