Reconsolidation from negative emotional pictures: Is successful retrieval required?

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1031-1045

  Finn, Bridgid ^a   Roediger III, Henry L ^a   Rosenzweig, Emily ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion and memory; Memory retrieval; Reconsolidation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMOTION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; SEMANTICS; TIME;

ADULT; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866860962     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-012-0203-7     Document Type: Article

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