Neural correlates of emotional memories: A review of evidence from brain imaging studies

Psychologia

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 80-111

  Dolcos, Florin ^a   Denkova, Ekaterina ^b   Dolcos, Sanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Emotion cognition interactions; Hippocampus; Individual differences; Modulation hypothesis; Neuroimaging; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865102978     PISSN: 00332852     EISSN: 13475916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2117/psysoc.2012.80     Document Type: Review

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