Neural correlates of opposing effects of emotional distraction on perception and episodic memory: An event-related fMRI investigation

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue SEPTEMBER, 2012, Pages

  Shafer, Andrea T ^a   Dolcos, Florin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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

Author keywords

Affect; Emotional automaticity; Emotional distraction; Emotional memory; Encoding success

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; EMOTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PERCEPTION; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84867034463     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2012.00070     Document Type: Article

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