Suppression of aversive memories associates with changes in early and late stages of neurocognitive processing

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2839-2848

  Chen, Chunping ^a,b   Liu, Chao ^a   Huang, Ruiwang ^a,c   Cheng, Dazhi ^a   Wu, Haiyan ^a   Xu, Pengfei ^a   Mai, Xiaoqin ^d   Luo, Yue Jia ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^c SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Late parietal positivity (LPP); Later negativity (LN); Memory suppression; Think and No Think task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AVERSIVE MEMORY; AWARENESS; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; DOWN REGULATION; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LATE PARIETAL POSITIVITY; LATER NEGATIVITY; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY SUPPRESSION; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REPRESSION, PSYCHOLOGY; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865851584     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.08.004     Document Type: Article

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