The stressed eyewitness: The interaction of thematic arousal and post-event stress in memory for central and peripheral event information

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JULY 2012, 2012, Pages

  Echterhoff, Gerald ^a   Wolf, Oliver T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arousal; Central vs. peripheral information; Emotion; Eyewitnesses; Goal directed processing; Memory; Salivary cortisol; Social influence; Stress

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL STRESS; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POST EVENT STRESS; RECOGNITION; SALIVA; SOCIAL INTERACTION; THEMATIC AROUSAL; TRIER SOCIAL STRESS TEST; WITNESS;

EID: 84865081972     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2012.00057     Document Type: Article

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