Visual attention and emotional memory: Recall of aversive pictures is partially mediated by concurrent task performance

Emotion

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 33-38

  Pottage, Claire L ^a   Schaefer, Alexandre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arousal; Attention; Emotion; Memory; Valence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; MALE; MEMORY; RECALL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; ADOLESCENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864376078     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024574     Document Type: Article

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