Effect of the survival judgment task on memory performance in subclinically depressed people

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue APR, 2012, Pages

  Nouchi, Rui ^a,b   Kawashima, Ryuta ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptive memory; Combination hypothesis; Depression; Subclinical; Survival judgment task

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867137687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00114     Document Type: Article

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