The effect of emotional arousal and retention delay on subsequent-memory effects

Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 150-159

  Mickley Steinmetz, Katherine R ^a   Schmidt, Katherine ^a   Zucker, Halle R ^a   Kensinger, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arousal; Delay; Emotion; Encoding; fMRI; Subsequent memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 84864712752     PISSN: 17588928     EISSN: 17588936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17588928.2012.677421     Document Type: Article

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