Give it time: Neural evidence for distorted time perception and enhanced memory encoding in emotional situations

NeuroImage

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 591-599

  Dirnberger, Georg ^a   Hesselmann, Guido ^a   Roiser, Jonathan P ^b   Preminger, Son ^a,c   Jahanshahi, Marjan ^d   Paz, Rony ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER   (Israel)

^d NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emotion processing; Memory encoding; Time perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; EMOTION; ERROR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE NET; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 84864915678     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.06.041     Document Type: Article

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