Emotional information in body and background hampers recognition memory for faces

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 321-325

  Van den Stock, Jan ^a,b   De Gelder, Beatrice ^a,b,c  

^a KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Body; Context; Emotion; Face; Memory; Scene

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERFORMANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84859156488     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2012.01.007     Document Type: Article

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