Look at me, I'll remember you: The Perception of Self-Relevant Social Cues Enhances Memory and Right Hippocampal Activity

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2428-2440

  Conty, Laurence ^a,b   Grèzes, Julie ^a,c  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 8   (France)

^c Centre de NeuroImagerie de Recherche (CENIR)   (France)

Author keywords

Direct gaze; Emotion; FMRI; Hippocampus; Memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGER; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAZE; GESTURE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IDENTITY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL MEMORY;

ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859079212     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21366     Document Type: Article

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